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Limiting legislative terms / edited by Gerald Benjamin, Michael J. Malbin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c1992.Description: xiv, 324 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0871878631 :
  • 0871877406 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 328.73/073 20
LOC classification:
  • JK1140 .L56 1992
Contents:
Term limits for lawmakers : how to start thinking about a proposal in process / Gerald Benjamin and Michael J. Malbin -- Rotation in office : the history of an idea / Mark P. Petracca -- Federalists v. antifederalists : the term-limitation debate at the founding / Michael J. Malbin -- Term limits fail in Washington : the 1991 battleground / David J. Olson -- Transplanting term limits : political mobilization and grass-roots politics / Stuart Rothenberg -- The guillotine comes to California : term-limit politics in the golden state / Charles M. Price -- Term limitations and political careers in Oklahoma : in, out, up, down / Gary W. Copeland -- Term limits in the state executive branch / Thad L. Beyle -- A comment on competition and careers / Linda L. Fowler --
The impact of term limitations on the states : cuttiong the underbrush or chopping down the tall timber / David H. Everson -- The effects of term limira on legislatures : a comment / Alan Rosenthal -- Legislatures after term limits / Michael J. Malbin and Gerald Benjamin -- Term limitation : an idea whose time has come / John H. Fund -- Bad housekeeping : the case against congressional term limits / Charles R. Kesler -- Can the states constitutionally impose term limits on members of Congress ? : a legal debate -- California legislature v. March Fong Eu, Secretary of State , October 10, 1991 -- The California ballot pamphlet : the pros and the cons of Proposition 140, November 6, 1990 --
Texts of term-limit ballot initiatives -- Turnover and reelection rates in the U.S. House and Senate, 1790-1990 -- Seniority of U.S. Representatives, 1953-1991 -- Seniority of U.S. Senators, 1953-1991 -- Ten-year turnover in state legislatures, 1979-1989 -- Ten-year turnover by category of legislature, 1979-1989 -- Simulated profile of California Senate and Assembly with term limits -- Simulated profile of Colorado Senate and House with term limits -- State provisions for initiative.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and index.

Term limits for lawmakers : how to start thinking about a proposal in process / Gerald Benjamin and Michael J. Malbin -- Rotation in office : the history of an idea / Mark P. Petracca -- Federalists v. antifederalists : the term-limitation debate at the founding / Michael J. Malbin -- Term limits fail in Washington : the 1991 battleground / David J. Olson -- Transplanting term limits : political mobilization and grass-roots politics / Stuart Rothenberg -- The guillotine comes to California : term-limit politics in the golden state / Charles M. Price -- Term limitations and political careers in Oklahoma : in, out, up, down / Gary W. Copeland -- Term limits in the state executive branch / Thad L. Beyle -- A comment on competition and careers / Linda L. Fowler --

The impact of term limitations on the states : cuttiong the underbrush or chopping down the tall timber / David H. Everson -- The effects of term limira on legislatures : a comment / Alan Rosenthal -- Legislatures after term limits / Michael J. Malbin and Gerald Benjamin -- Term limitation : an idea whose time has come / John H. Fund -- Bad housekeeping : the case against congressional term limits / Charles R. Kesler -- Can the states constitutionally impose term limits on members of Congress ? : a legal debate -- California legislature v. March Fong Eu, Secretary of State , October 10, 1991 -- The California ballot pamphlet : the pros and the cons of Proposition 140, November 6, 1990 --

Texts of term-limit ballot initiatives -- Turnover and reelection rates in the U.S. House and Senate, 1790-1990 -- Seniority of U.S. Representatives, 1953-1991 -- Seniority of U.S. Senators, 1953-1991 -- Ten-year turnover in state legislatures, 1979-1989 -- Ten-year turnover by category of legislature, 1979-1989 -- Simulated profile of California Senate and Assembly with term limits -- Simulated profile of Colorado Senate and House with term limits -- State provisions for initiative.

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