U.S. Politics - Campaigns & Elections, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, The United States Congress - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
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.
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Political scientists and economists predict the consequences of legislative term limits at the state and national levels, not in order to influence the current debate but allow the next generation of scholars to evaluate the theories and methods of prediction. Excluding discussions of constitutionality, and focusing on Public Choice perspectives, they consider the impact on legislative behavior, electoral responsiveness, legislative turnover, and party balance; voter attitudes and the contemporary movement; and historical and comparative perspectives. Among the comparisons are with term limits for governors, in local governments, and in Costa Rica. A postscript discusses alternatives to term limits. Some of the 20 papers were presented at a May-June 1991 conference in Irvine, California; others have been previously published. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 31, 2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Pages
416
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9789401073073