Term Limits in State Legislatures by John M. Carey

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It has been estimated that time period limits in kingdom legislatures--soon to be in influence in eighteen states--will first have an effect on the composition of the legislatures, subsequent the habit of legislators, and eventually legislatures as associations. The stories in Term Limits in kingdom Legislatures reveal that time period limits have had significantly much less impression on country legislatures than proponents predicted.
The term-limit movement--designed to restrict the utmost time a legislator can serve in office--swept during the states like wildfire within the first 1/2 the Nineties. by way of November 2000, country legislators could have been "term restricted out" in 11 states.
This ebook relies on a survey of approximately 3,000 legislators from all fifty states besides in depth interviews with twenty-two legislative leaders in 4 term-limited states. the knowledge have been accrued as time period limits have been simply starting to take influence so as to trap anticipatory results of the reform, which set in once time period restrict legislation have been handed. so that it will comprehend the consequences of time period limits at the broader electoral area, the authors additionally study facts on development of legislators among homes of nation legislatures and from the country legislatures to Congress.
The effects express that there aren't any systematic modifications among time period restrict and non-term restrict states within the composition of the legislature (e.g., expert backgrounds, demographics, ideology). but with admire to legislative habit, time period limits reduce the time legislators dedicate to securing beef and heighten the concern they position at the wishes of the kingdom and at the calls for of judgment of right and wrong relative to district pursuits. whilst, with recognize to the legislature as an establishment, time period limits seem to be redistributing strength clear of majority occasion leaders and towards governors and doubtless legislative staffers.
This e-book could be of curiosity either to political scientists, policymakers, and activists interested by nation politics.
John M. Carey is Assistant Professor of Political technological know-how, Washington college in St. Louis. Richard G. Niemi is Professor of Political technological know-how, collage of Rochester. Lynda W. Powell is Professor of Political technological know-how, collage of Rochester.

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Our pay in Maine is still relatively low, [so] that the pay itself in the session schedule is a bigger determination as to who will serve or not. . So a lot of people just can’t afford to take that amount of time off to serve and so by nature of that we’ve had a lot of retirees, we’ve had a lot of women, and that’s been an encouraging sign. We’ve always been in the top ‹ve or top ten in the country in terms of women participation and women in leadership roles certainly, too. That’s been dramatic—this year more than ever.

Therefore, to test hypotheses about legislative behavior, we need to rely on the same methodology as in chapter 2—that is, we need to distinguish the four groups of legislators de‹ned by their election in TL or NTL states and by their status as OTs or NCs. It is also appropriate, as earlier, to control for each state’s political, demographic, and economic conditions. Behavioral Effects 43 There is one added feature, however. In chapter 2 we were interested in differences between OTNTLs and OTTLs primarily as a check to verify that any differences between NCNTLs and NCTLs—the prime comparison groups when looking for compositional effects—were in fact the product of term limits.

3a. 3b. 3c. 3d. ” 34 Term Limits in the State Legislatures slightly less pronounced in term-limit states than in non-term-limit states. This ‹nding runs contrary to the usual arguments that associate term limits with conservatism. We urge caution, however, in interpreting these results. First, the differences between these shifts represent between onetenth and two-tenths of one point on the ‹ve-point scale used in the survey instrument. Second, we ‹nd evidence of a term-limits effect on only two of the four speci‹c policy questions and none whatsoever on general ideological self-placement.

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