Navigating Term Limits: The Careers of State Legislators

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