Adapting To Term Limits
Author | : Bruce E. Cain |
Publisher | : Public Policy Instit. of CA |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781582131016 |
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Author | : Bruce E. Cain |
Publisher | : Public Policy Instit. of CA |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781582131016 |
Author | : Stanley M. Caress |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2012-09-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1438443064 |
Legislative term limits remain a controversial feature of the American political landscape. Term Limits and Their Consequences provides a clear, comprehensive, and nonpartisan look at all aspects of this contentious subject. Stanley M. Caress and Todd T. Kunioka trace the emergence of the grassroots movement that supported term limits and explain why the idea of term limits became popular with voters. At the same time, they put term limits into a broader historical context, illustrating how they are one of many examples of the public's desire to reform government. Utilizing an impressive blend of quantitative data and interviews, Caress and Kunioka thoughtfully discuss the impact of term limits, focusing in particular on the nation's largest state, California. They scrutinize voting data to determine if term limits have altered election outcomes or the electoral chances of women and minority candidates, and reveal how restricting a legislator's time in office has changed political careers and ambitions. Designed to transform American politics, term limits did indeed bring change, but in ways ranging far beyond those anticipated by both their advocates and detractors.
Author | : Jennifer Drage Bowser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Legislators |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thad Kousser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521548731 |
This book examines how legislature rules affect the behavior of its members and policies.
Author | : John M. Carey |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2009-11-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0472024108 |
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.
Author | : Rick Farmer |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780739104453 |
The Test of Time brings together fifteen outstanding empirical studies, contributed by top political scientists and state policymakers. This volume offers both case studies of key states and cross-state comparisons that examine how legislatures, legislators, and political linkages such as lobbying and electoral competition have been affected by the imposition of legislative term limits. This essential source includes both a comprehensive annotated bibliography of term limits literature and a history of the term limits movement.
Author | : Bernard Grofman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1996-03-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
In developing Legislative Term Limits, the editor has included material that has explicit and testable models about the expected consequences of term limits that reflect Public Choice perspectives. This book contains the best efforts of economists and political scientists to predict the consequences of legislative term limits.
Author | : John C. Green |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2007-12-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 073915706X |
Legislative term limits are reshaping the political landscape in numerous states; however, few of the effects are consistent across all states. Everything from the political environment to the level of legislative professionalism within a state influences the trends that are often attributed to term limits. To cut through these many trends and isolate the ones most likely created by term limits, this volume develops comparisons of states with term limits to similar states without term limits. The comparisons are organized by levels of legislative professionalism. The richness of the case study approach allows the contributors to Legislating Without Experience to offer valuable insights into the legislative process in each of the specific states. They also illuminate the individual idiosyncrasies that enhance or dilute the effects of term limits in a given state. Rarely does a case study book with multiple contributors offer apples-to-apples data comparisons. This project engaged nationally recognized scholars to collect and analyze comparable data in each state. The loss of major power brokers and their institutional memory makes the legislature a more chaotic place. Legislating Without Experience argues that on the whole, the legislature as an institution has been weakened by term limits. However, these effects vary from state to state based on the specifics of the limit and the degree of legislative professionalism. Importantly, legislative actors are adapting to the limits and making the best of a difficult situation. This book will be an excellent reference for students and scholars of state politics, legislative process, and term limits.
Author | : V. Flynn |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147678020X |
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author | : Victor Kamber |
Publisher | : Regnery Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1995-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780895264657 |
The hottest political issue in America, term limits, embodies voter fury at incumbent officeholders and the failures of Congress. But now, in this controversial new book, Victor Kamber argues that term limits themselves are a disastrous quick fix and must be stopped.