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Navigating Term Limits : The Careers of State Legislators
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Details
- Creator
- Jordan Butcher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (268 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783031394232, 3031394232, 9783031394225
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Introducing Term Limits -- 1 Term Limits and Their Many Theories -- Data -- Datasets -- Legislative Interviews -- Goals of the Book -- Looking Forward -- Bibliography -- 2 The Push and Promise of Term Limits -- Pushing Term Limits -- Passing Term Limits -- Types of Term Limits -- Unified/Lifetime Limits -- Oklahoma -- California -- Arkansas -- Divided/Lifetime Limits -- Michigan -- Missouri -- Nevada -- Unified/Consecutive Limits -- Nebraska -- Divided/Consecutive Limits -- Arizona -- Colorado -- Florida -- Maine -- Montana -- Ohio -- South Dakota -- Louisiana -- States Without Term Limits -- Bibliography -- Part II Changing Careerism -- 3 Legislative Careerism and Growing Ambition -- Understanding Ambition -- Analysis -- Ambition Pathways -- Discrete Ambition -- Static Ambition -- Progressive Ambition -- Ambition in Practice -- Unified/Lifetime -- Unified/Consecutive -- Divided/Lifetime -- Divided/Consecutive -- Summary -- Bibliography -- 4 Declining Turnover and Legislative Leave -- Turnover and Legislative Leave -- Analysis -- Testing Leave -- Turnover and Leave in the States -- Unified/Lifetime -- Unified/Consecutive -- Divided/Lifetime -- Divided/Consecutive -- Summary -- Bibliography -- 5 Legislative Leadership -- Testing Legislative Leadership -- Experience -- Apprenticeships -- Tenure -- Data and Methods -- Experience -- Apprenticeships -- Tenure -- Leaders in the States -- Divided/Lifetime -- Unified/Consecutive -- Unified/Lifetime -- Divided/Consecutive -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Part III The Implications of Term Limits -- 6 Changes to Internal Deliberation: Committees -- The Importance of Committees -- Committee Changes Under Term Limits -- Policy Deliberation -- Gatekeeping -- Committees in the States -- Summary -- Bibliography
- 7 Changes to External Relations: State Agencies -- Legislative Oversight -- Term Limits and Oversight -- A Growing Dependency -- Implications for Bureaucratic Relations -- Agency Monitoring -- Agency Reliance -- Unified/Lifetime -- Unified/Consecutive -- Divided/Lifetime -- Divided/Consecutive -- Legislators and Agencies -- Unified/Lifetime -- Unified/Consecutive -- Divided/Lifetime -- Divided/Consecutive -- Summary -- Bibliography -- 8 Conclusions -- Reevaluating the Promise of Term Limits -- Testing Term Limits -- Navigating Term Limits -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: State Term Limit Laws -- Appendix B: Additional Tables -- Appendix C: Interview Questions -- Index