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  title info:
    title: Giving up on democracy
    sub title: why term limits are bad for America
  name:
    name part: Kamber, Victor
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: No item of the House Republicans' roundly reviled Contract with America failed more conspicuously than congressional term limits, as a half-hearted Speaker Gingrich declined to demand party allegiance to them as he had for other contract measures. A good thing, too, says Kamber, for the term-limits movement is profoundly antidemocratic, an attempt by anarchic libertarians and wealthy would-be plutocrats to expunge political experience from Congress and state legislatures so that lobbyists and professional legislative staffers unbeholden to the electorate will be drawing up laws and seeing to their passage. Kamber is very persuasive in arguing that view of term limits and even more persuasive in maintaining that experienced politicians make the best legislators. It is campaign and legislative procedural reform that U.S. politics needs, he insists, not term limits, and he finishes his brief with a resume of such reforms that will do good and others, including some the 104th Congress has already enacted, that will not. - Ray Olson--BL 10/01/1995.
  table of 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 volume 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.
  note: Victor Kamber ; prefaces by Bob Kerrey and Henry Hyde.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress
    topic: Term of office
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress.
  subject:
    topic: Term limits (Public office)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Term limits (Public office)
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: JK1140 .K36 1995
  classification: 328.73/073
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    title info:
      title: Giving up on democracy
    name:
      name part: Kamber, Victor.
    origin info:
      publisher: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, ©1995
    identifier: (OCoLC)603948523
  identifier: 089526465X
  identifier: 9780895264657
  identifier: 95031969
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 950720
    record change date: 20240808151539.6
    record identifier: in00004814438
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng