Navigating term limits : the careers of state legislators / Jordan Butcher.
Butcher, Jordan, author.
2023
JK1130
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Title Navigating term limits : the careers of state legislators / Jordan Butcher.
Author Butcher, Jordan, author.
ISBN 9783031394232 (electronic bk.)
3031394232 (electronic bk.)
9783031394225
3031394224
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39423-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-39423-2 doi
Call Number JK1130
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.73073
Summary This book considers whether term limits help curb careerism in the US state legislatures. Term limits are popular among the public and have been overwhelmingly successful once on the ballot. Despite this, very little is known about the long-term effects of these institutional rules. If term limits were sold to the public to remove entrenched incumbents from office, how do they alter the careers of legislators and what are the implications? Butcher suggests that term limits do not end careers but instead, lawmakers have become more creative in their pursuits. She finds that the presence of term limits has created an new career system unique to those states that have limits. In each chapter, there is a quantitative analysis, followed by qualitative interviews to better understand the underlying motivations of members. Jordan Butcher is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University, USA. Her research in state legislative politics lies at the intersection of intuitional design and political careerism.
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Introduction: Testing Term Limits
Part One: New Career Systems
Chapter 1: The Term-Limited States
Chapter 2: Understanding Political Ambition
Chapter 3: Declining Turnover and Legislative Leave
Chapter 4: Leadership- Part Two: Implications
Chapter 5: Changes to Internal Deliberation: Committees
Chapter 6: Changes to External Relations: State Agencies
Conclusion.

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