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Term Limits in State Legislatures (Hardcover)
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Term Limits in State Legislatures (Hardcover)
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It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon
to be in effect in eighteen states--will first affect the
composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators,
and finally legislatures as institutions. The studies in "Term
Limits in State Legislatures" demonstrate that term limits have had
considerably less effect on state legislatures than proponents
predicted.
The term-limit movement--designed to limit the maximum time a
legislator can serve in office--swept through the states like
wildfire in the first half of the 1990s. By November 2000, state
legislators will have been "term limited out" in eleven
states.
This book is based on a survey of nearly 3,000 legislators from all
fifty states along with intensive interviews with twenty-two
legislative leaders in four term-limited states. The data were
collected as term limits were just beginning to take effect in
order to capture anticipatory effects of the reform, which set in
as soon as term limit laws were passed. In order to understand the
effects of term limits on the broader electoral arena, the authors
also examine data on advancement of legislators between houses of
state legislatures and from the state legislatures to
Congress.
The results show that there are no systematic differences between
term limit and non-term limit states in the composition of the
legislature (e.g., professional backgrounds, demographics,
ideology). Yet with respect to legislative behavior, term limits
decrease the time legislators devote to securing pork and heighten
the priority they place on the needs of the state and on the
demands of conscience relative to district interests. At the same
time, with respect to the legislature as an institution, term
limits appear to be redistributing power away from majority party
leaders and toward governors and possibly legislative
staffers.
This book will be of interest both to political scientists,
policymakers, and activists involved in state politics.
John M. Carey is Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Washington University in St. Louis. Richard G. Niemi is Professor
of Political Science, University of Rochester. Lynda W. Powell is
Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester.
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