Research Catalog

Title

Legislative term limits : public choice perspectives / edited by Bernard Grofman.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Grofman, Bernard.

Description

xxiv, 385 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in public choice ; 10

Uniform Title

Studies in public choice ; 10.

Subject

• United States. Congress > Term of office
• Social choice > United States
• Term limits (Public office) > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-377) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The term limits debate: hypotheses in search of data / Bernard Grofman -- pt. I. Predicting the impact of term limits on legislator behavior and electoral responsiveness -- The varying impact of legislative term limits / Bruce E. Cain -- How will term limits affect legislative work? / Amihai Glazer, Martin P. Wattenberg -- Term limits and representation / Linda R. Cohen, Matthew L. Spitzer
• The impact of term limits on the California legislature: an interest group perspective / Elizabeth A. Capell -- Term limits, responsiveness and the failures of increased competition / Elizabeth R. Gerber, Arthur Lupia -- Impact of congressional tenure restriction on spending / W. Robert Reed, D. Eric Schansberg
• Pt. II. Predicting the impact of term limits on legislative turnover and party balance -- For whom the bell tolls: term limits and state legislatures / Gary F. Moncrief ... et al.
• An analysis of the impact of congressional term limits on turnover and party balance / W. Robert Reed, D. Eric Schansberg -- Term limitation in a dynamic model of partisan balance / John B. Gilmour, Paul Rothstein -- The effect of term limits when competition is endogenized: a preliminary model / Bernard Grofman, Neil Sutherland
• Pt. III. Voter attitudes and the contemporary movement for legislative term limits -- An analysis of term limitation elections / Keith Boeckelman, Gina Corell
• Term limits in Oklahoma, California and Colorado in 1990 / John David Rausch, Jr., Gary W. Copeland -- Reconciling voters' behavior with legislative term limits / Andrew R. Dick, John R. Lott, Jr. -- Term limits as political redistribution / Daniel Friedman, Donald Wittman -- Term limits and political conflict / Alexander Tabarrok
• Pt. IV. Term limits in historical and comparative perspective -- A history of rotation in office / Mark P. Petracca -- Gubernatorial term limits and term lengths in historical perspective, 1700-1990: geographic diffusion, non-separability, and the rachet effect / Bernard Grofman, Neil Sutherland
• The experience with municipal term limits in Orange County, California / Mark P. Petracca, Kareen Moore O'Brien -- Term limits and local governments in California / Bruce E. Cain -- Parties, incentives, and term limits in Costa Rica / John Carey -- Postscript: alternatives to term limits / Carole Jean Uhlaner.

ISBN

0792397029 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95052837^

OCLC

• 33983651
• SCSB-10284418

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library