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Giving up on democracy : why term limits are bad for America / Victor Kamber ; preface by Bob Kerrey and Henry Hyde.
- Title
- Giving up on democracy : why term limits are bad for America / Victor Kamber ; preface by Bob Kerrey and Henry Hyde.
- Author
- Kamber, Victor.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c1995.
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- Description
- xii, 275 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-266) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Oklahoma -- Where Term Limits Came Sweeping Down the Plains -- 2. Mandatory Rotation: The History of a Bad Idea -- 3. Populism or Elitism? -- 4. The Myth of Cincinnatus -- 5. California -- The End of the Road -- 6. Laboratories of Chaos -- 7. Are Elections Necessary? -- 8. The Elections of '92 and '94 -- 9. Deforming Congress -- 10. The Learning Curve -- 11. The Permanent Government -- 12. Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors -- 13. The Rich, the Old, and the Bought -- 14. Great Careers -- 15. Term Limits and the President -- 16. Heads of States -- 17. The Constitutional Case Against Term Limits -- 18. U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton -- 19. Amendment Dementia -- 20. The Battle for Washington State -- 21. The Money Behind the Movement -- 22. Term Limits as a Path to Power -- 23. Dissension in the Ranks -- 24. Modern Day Snake Oil -- 25. Polls and the Polis -- 26. Short-Circuiting Democracy: Tyranny by Initiative -- 27. Anti-Politics -- 28. Reform, Not Limits -- 29. Toward a New Civitas -- Appendix: A Guide for Grassroots Activists.
- ISBN
- 089526465X (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95031969^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library