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Limiting legislative terms /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Benjamin, Gerald, Malbin, Michael J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [1992]
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > Term of office.
Legislative bodies > United States > States.
Table of 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.