The Test of Time : Coping with Legislative Term Limits

The Test of Time brings together fifteen outstanding empirical studies, contributed by top political scientists and state policymakers.

This volume offers both case studies of key states and cross-state comparisons that examine how legislatures, legislators, and political linkages_such as lobbying and electoral competition_have been affected by the imposition of legislative term limits.

This essential source includes both a comprehensive annotated bibliography of term limits literature and a history of the term limits movement.