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Term Limits as a Boon to Legislative Scholarship: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Christopher Z. Mooney
Christopher Z. Mooney*
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University of Illinois at Springfield
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Abstract

After an exceptionally swift reform movement in the 1990s, 15 states are now adjusting to the most significant institutional change to their governments in a generation—legislative term limits. Beyond the basic task of identifying and cataloguing their various substantive impacts, term limits have presented scholars with an exceptional opportunity to test legislative theory for two reasons. First, most legislative theory is based on behavioral assumptions that term limits appear to affect systematically, such as the reelection motivation. Second, the distribution of term limits across the states gives scholars exceptional methodological advantages for testing theory. In this article, I review the scholarly literature on the impacts of state legislative term limits, describe their theoretically relevant implications and methodological advantages, and advocate using the reform to develop an important research agenda.

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State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , Summer 2009 , pp. 204 - 228
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Copyright © 2009 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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