Legislating without experience
Subtitle: case studies in state legislative term limits
By: edited by Rick Farmer ... [et al.].
Contributors: Farmer, Rick, 1958-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780739111444; 9780739111451
Subjects: Legislation -- United States -- States.; Term limits (Public office) -- United States -- States.; Legislators -- Term of office -- United States -- States.; Legislative power -- United States -- States.; Legislative bodies -- United States -- States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.
Table of contents: value: Institutional imbalance : the effect of six year limits in California / Bruce Cain, Thad Kousser, Karl T. Kurtz; value: Legislative power in the Buckeye State : the revenge of term limits / Rick Farmer, Thomas H. Little; value: Truncated careers in professionalized state legislatures / Christopher Z. Mooney; value: The effects of legislative term limits in Arizona : more churning, more chaos, and a diminished institutional role for legislators / David R. Berman; value: Colorado legislative term limits : the worst of both worlds / John A. Straayer; value: Out with the old heads and in with the young Turks : the effects of term limits in semi-professionalized state legislatures / Christopher Z. Mooney, Jason Wood, and Gerald C. Wright; value: Term limits in the Arkansas General Assembly : a citizen legislature responds / Art English, Brian Weberg; value: Institutional change and legislative term limits in Maine / Richard J. Powell, Rich Jones; value: It's all about the turnover : term limits in citizen legislatures / Michael Smith; value: Living with term limits / Alan Rosenthal.