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Book SynopsisLegislating Without Experience provides an in-depth analysis of individual states experiencing state legislative term limits as well as apples-to-apples comparisons with states that are untermed. It is a valuable description of the legislative process in each state and a quasi-experimental study of term limits.
Trade ReviewThis volume provides a thorough and sophisticated assessment of the impact of term limits....Recommended. * CHOICE, June 2008 *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1. Introduction: Accelerating Change with Term Limits Part 2 I: Professionalized State Legislatures Chapter 3 2. Institutional Imbalance: The Effect of Six Year Limits in California Chapter 4 3. Legislative Power in the Buckeye State: The Revenge of Term Limits Chapter 5 4. Truncated Careers in Professionalized State Legislatures Part 6 II: Semi-Professionalized State Legislatures Chapter 7 5. The Effects of Legislative Term Limits in Arizona: More Churning, More Chaos, and a Diminished Institutional Role for Legislators Chapter 8 6. Colorado Legislative Term Limits: The Worst of Both Worlds Chapter 9 7. Out with the Old-Heads and in with the Young Turks: The Effects of Term Limits on Semi-Professionalized State Legislatures Part 10 III: Citizen Legislatures Chapter 11 8. Term Limits in the Arkansas General Assembly: A Citizen Legislature Responds Chapter 12 9. Institutional Change and Legislative Term Limits in Maine Chapter 13 10. It's All About the Turnover: Term Limits in Citizen Legislatures Chapter 14 11. Living with Term Limits
