Rick Farmer is director of committee staff at the Oklahoma House of Representatives and a fellow at the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. Christopher Z. Mooney is professor of Political Studies with the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at University of Illinois at Springfield. Richard J. Powell is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. John C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron.

• Chapter 1 1. Introduction: Accelerating Change with Term LimitsPart 2 I: Professionalized State LegislaturesChapter 3 2. Institutional Imbalance: The Effect of Six Year Limits in CaliforniaChapter 4 3. Legislative Power in the Buckeye State: The Revenge of Term LimitsChapter 5 4. Truncated Careers in Professionalized State LegislaturesPart 6 II: Semi-Professionalized State LegislaturesChapter 7 5. The Effects of Legislative Term Limits in Arizona: More Churning, More Chaos, and a Diminished Institutional Role for LegislatorsChapter 8 6. Colorado Legislative Term Limits: The Worst of Both WorldsChapter 9 7. Out with the Old-Heads and in with the Young Turks: The Effects of Term Limits on Semi-Professionalized State LegislaturesPart 10 III: Citizen LegislaturesChapter 11 8. Term Limits in the Arkansas General Assembly: A Citizen Legislature RespondsChapter 12 9. Institutional Change and Legislative Term Limits in MaineChapter 13 10. It's All About the Turnover: Term Limits in Citizen LegislaturesChapter 14 11. Living with Term Limits

This volume provides a thorough and sophisticated assessment of the impact of term limits....Recommended.

Rick Farmer is director of committee staff at the Oklahoma House of Representatives and a fellow at the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. Christopher Z. Mooney is professor of Political Studies with the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at University of Illinois at Springfield. Richard J. Powell is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. John C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron.

• Chapter 1 1. Introduction: Accelerating Change with Term LimitsPart 2 I: Professionalized State LegislaturesChapter 3 2. Institutional Imbalance: The Effect of Six Year Limits in CaliforniaChapter 4 3. Legislative Power in the Buckeye State: The Revenge of Term LimitsChapter 5 4. Truncated Careers in Professionalized State LegislaturesPart 6 II: Semi-Professionalized State LegislaturesChapter 7 5. The Effects of Legislative Term Limits in Arizona: More Churning, More Chaos, and a Diminished Institutional Role for LegislatorsChapter 8 6. Colorado Legislative Term Limits: The Worst of Both WorldsChapter 9 7. Out with the Old-Heads and in with the Young Turks: The Effects of Term Limits on Semi-Professionalized State LegislaturesPart 10 III: Citizen LegislaturesChapter 11 8. Term Limits in the Arkansas General Assembly: A Citizen Legislature RespondsChapter 12 9. Institutional Change and Legislative Term Limits in MaineChapter 13 10. It's All About the Turnover: Term Limits in Citizen LegislaturesChapter 14 11. Living with Term Limits

This volume provides a thorough and sophisticated assessment of the impact of term limits....Recommended.

Rick Farmer is director of committee staff at the Oklahoma House of Representatives and a fellow at the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. Christopher Z. Mooney is professor of Political Studies with the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at University of Illinois at Springfield. Richard J. Powell is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. John C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron.

• Chapter 1 1. Introduction: Accelerating Change with Term LimitsPart 2 I: Professionalized State LegislaturesChapter 3 2. Institutional Imbalance: The Effect of Six Year Limits in CaliforniaChapter 4 3. Legislative Power in the Buckeye State: The Revenge of Term LimitsChapter 5 4. Truncated Careers in Professionalized State LegislaturesPart 6 II: Semi-Professionalized State LegislaturesChapter 7 5. The Effects of Legislative Term Limits in Arizona: More Churning, More Chaos, and a Diminished Institutional Role for LegislatorsChapter 8 6. Colorado Legislative Term Limits: The Worst of Both WorldsChapter 9 7. Out with the Old-Heads and in with the Young Turks: The Effects of Term Limits on Semi-Professionalized State LegislaturesPart 10 III: Citizen LegislaturesChapter 11 8. Term Limits in the Arkansas General Assembly: A Citizen Legislature RespondsChapter 12 9. Institutional Change and Legislative Term Limits in MaineChapter 13 10. It's All About the Turnover: Term Limits in Citizen LegislaturesChapter 14 11. Living with Term Limits

This volume provides a thorough and sophisticated assessment of the impact of term limits....Recommended.