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Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Bernard Grofman

    1. University of California, Irvine, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Public Choice (SIPC, volume 10)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction to the Term Limits Debate: Hypotheses in Search of Data

    1. Introduction to the Term Limits Debate: Hypotheses in Search of Data

      • Bernard Grofman
      Pages 1-18

  3. Predicting the Impact of Term Limits on Legislator Behavior and Electoral Responsiveness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Varying Impact of Legislative Term Limits

      • Bruce E. Cain
      Pages 21-36

    3. How Will Term Limits Affect Legislative Work?

      • Amihai Glazer, Martin P. Wattenberg
      Pages 37-46

    4. Term Limits and Representation

      • Linda R. Cohen, Matthew L. Spitzer
      Pages 47-65

    5. The Impact of Term Limits on the California Legislature: An Interest Group Perspective

      • Elizabeth A. Capell
      Pages 67-85

    6. Term Limits, Responsiveness and the Failures of Increased Competition

      • Elisabeth R. Gerber, Arthur Lupia
      Pages 87-99

    7. Impact of Congressional Tenure Restriction on Spending

      • W. Robert Reed, D. Eric Schansberg
      Pages 101-116

  4. Predicting the Impact of term Limits on Legislative Turnover and Party Balance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Term Limits and State Legislatures

      • Gary F. Moncrief, Joel A. Thompson, Michael Haddon, Robert Hoyer
      Pages 119-128

    3. An Analysis of the Impact of Congressional Term Limits on Turnover and Party Balance

      • W. Robert Reed, D. Eric Schansberg
      Pages 129-143

    4. Term Limitation in a Dynamic Model of Partisan Balance

      • John B. Gilmour, Paul Rothstein
      Pages 145-174

    5. The Effect of Term Limits When Competition is Endogenized: A Preliminary Model

      • Bernard Grofman, Neil Sutherland
      Pages 175-182

  5. Voter Attitudes and the Contemporary Movement for Legislative Term Limits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. An Analysis of Term Limitation Elections

      • Keith Boeckelman, Gina Corell
      Pages 185-197

    3. Term Limits in Oklahoma, California, and Colorado in 1990

      • John David Rausch Jr., Gary W. Copeland
      Pages 199-214

    4. Reconciling Voters’ Behavior with Legislative Term Limits

      • Andrew R. Dick, John R. Lott Jr.
      Pages 215-227

    5. Term Limits as Political Redistribution

      • Daniel Friedman, Donald Wittman
      Pages 229-236

    6. Term Limits and Political Conflict

      • Alexander Tabarrok
      Pages 237-244
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Irvine, USA

    Bernard Grofman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives

  • Editors: Bernard Grofman

  • Series Title: Studies in Public Choice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1812-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9702-1Published: 31 March 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7307-3Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1812-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4700

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-5258

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 386

  • Topics: Political Science

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