Legislative Term Limits:
A Select Bibliography

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Compiled by Marc A. Levin and Bruce E. Cain

October 1998

Ainsworth, B. 1993.
Battle of the branches: the supreme court vs. the legislature. California Journal 24: 21-23
Alvarez, RM, Saving, JL. 1997.
Deficits, Democrats, and distributive benefits: congressional elections and the pork barrel in the 1980s. Political Research Quarterly 50: 809-832
Bandow, D. 1996.
The political revolution that wasn't: why term limits are needed now more than ever. Policy Analysis 259. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. 21 pp.
Barcellona, MM, Grose, AP. 1994.
Term Limits: A Political Dilemma. San Francisco: WESTRENDS. 18 pp.
Bell, D. 1998.
Time's up: let the experiment begin as the Michigan Legislature says farewell to experience. State Legislatures 24: 24-29
Benjamin, G, Malbin, MJ. 1992.
Limiting Legislative Terms. Washington, DC: CQ Books. 324 pp.
Block, A. 1993.
"Nesting" in the Assembly does not refer to a comfort zone. California Journal 24: 25-29
Block, A. 1989.
The puzzling lack of leadership. California Journal 20: 233-237
Boeckleman, KA. 1993.
Term limitation, responsiveness, and the public interest. Polity 26: 189-205
Boeckelman, K, Corell, G. 1996.
An analysis of term limitation elections. In Grofman, B. Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives. Boston: Kluwer. 185-197 pp.
Bond, J. 1995.
Temporizing term limits: the speaker likes 12 years, not 6. Cato Institute Briefing Papers 22. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. 10 pp.
Borland, J. 1997.
Stopping the clock. California Journal 28: 36-41
Borland, J. 1996.
Third house rising. California Journal 27: 28-31
Brown, W. 1991.
Legislative term limits: altering the balance of power. Journal of Law and Politics 7: 747-755
Brunelle, J. 1997.
The reign in Maine. State Legislatures 23: 28-29
Cain, BE, Ferejohn, J, Fiorina, M. 1987.
The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 268 pp.
Cain, BE. 1996a.
Term limits and local governments in California. In Grofman, B. Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives. Boston: Kluwer. 309-319 pp.
Cain, BE. 1996b.
The varying impact of legislative term limits. In Grofman, B. Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives. pp. 21-36 Boston: Kluwer
Calamita, FP. 1992.
Solving voters' dilemma: the case for legislative term-limitation. Journal of Law and Politics 8: 559-607
Capell, EA. 1996.
The impact of term limits on the California Legislature: an interest group perspective. In Grofman, B. Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives. pp. 67-85 Boston: Kluwer
Caress, S. 1996.
The impact of term limits on legislative behavior: an examination of transitional legislature. PS: Political Science & Politics 29: 671-677
Carey, JM. 1996.
Term Limits and Legislative Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 216 pp.
Carey, JM, Niemi, RG, Powell, LW. 1998.
The effects of term limits on state legislatures. Legislative Studies Quarterly 23: 271-300
Chadha, A, Bernstein, R. 1996.
Why incumbents are treated so harshly: term limits for state legislators. American Politics Quarterly 24: 363-377
Chi K, Leatherby, D. 1998.
State legislative term limits. Solutions 6. Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments. 38 pp.
Cohen, LR Spitzer, ML. 1992.
Term limits. Georgetown Law Journal 80: 477-522
Cohen, LR, Spitzer, ML. 1996.
Term limits and representation. In Grofman, B. Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives. pp. 47-65 Boston: Kluwer
Copland, GW, Rausch, JD. 1993.
Sendin' 'em home early: Oklahoma and legislative term limitations. Oklahoma Politics 2: 33-50
Corwin, E. 1991.
Limits on legislative terms: legal and policy implications. Harvard Journal on Legislation 28: 569-608
Cox, G, Morgenstern, S. 1993.
The increasing advantage of incumbency in the U.S. states. Legislative Studies Quarterly 18: 495-514
Cox, G, Morgenstern, S. 1995.
The incumbancy advantage in multimember districts: evidence from U.S. states. Legislative Studies Quarterly 20: 329-349
Coyne, JK, Fund, JH. 1992.
Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term . Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway. 235 pp.
Crane, EH, Pilon, R. 1994.
The Politics and Law of Term Limits. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. 162 pp.
Daniel, K, Lott, JR. 1997.
Term limits and electoral competitiveness: evidence from California's state legislative races. Public Choice 90: 165-184
Dillon, R, DuBay, A, Yee, BT. 1990.
Proposition 140: The Schabarum Initiative, Analysis of Provisions and Implications. Sacramento: California Senate Office of Research. 72 pp.
Dire, A. 1998.
The clock strikes 12 in Colorado: the term-limits law has just about wiped out the top legislative leadership in the Centennial State. State Legislatures 24: 32-38
Donovan, T, Snipp, J. 1994.
Support for legislative term limitations in California: group representation, partisanship, and campaign information. Journal of Politics 56: 492-501
Elving, R. 1990.
Congress braces for fallout from state measures. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 48: 3144-3147
Elving, R. 1991.
Foley helps put the brakes on drive for term limits. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 49: 3261-3264
Elving, R. 1991.
National drive to limit terms casts shadow over congress. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 49: 3101-3106
Erickson, RS. 1971.
The advantage of incumbency in congressional elections. Polity 3: 395-405
Ericson, S. 1993.
A bulwark against faction: James Madison's case for term limits. Policy Review 63: 76-78
Fay, J, Christman, R. 1994.
Hell no, we won't go! California's local pols confront term limits. National Civic Review 83: 54-61
Fett, PJ, Ponder, DE. 1993.
Congressional term limits, state legislative term limits and congressional turnover: a theory of change. PS: Political Science & Politics 26: 211-216
Foster, D. 1994.
The lame-duck state. State Legislatures 20: 32-39
Fowler, L. 1995.
Why history hates term limits. State Government News 38: 14-16
Francis, W, Kenny L. 1997.
Equilibrium projections of the consequences of term limits upon expected tenure, institutional turnover, and membership experience. Journal of Politics 59: 240-252
Frenzel, B. 1992.
Term limits and the immortal congress: how to make congressional elections competitive again. Brookings Review 10: 18-22
Fund, JH. 1990.
Term limitation: an idea whose time has come. Policy Analysis 141. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. 29 pp.
Fund, JH. 1991.
Term Limits for New York State: Expanding Democracy Through a Citizen Legislature. Albany: Empire Foundation for Policy Research. 19 pp.
Garrett, E. 1996.
Term limitations and the myth of the citizen-legislator. Cornell Law Review 81: 623-697
Gilmour, J, Rothstein, P. 1994.
Term limitation in a dynamic model of partisan balance. American Journal of Political Science 38: 770-796
Gilmour, J, Rothstein P. 1996.
A dynamic model of loss, retirement, and tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. Journal of Politics 58: 54-68
Glaeser, EL. 1997.
Self-imposed term limits. Public Choice 93: 389-394
Gorush, N, Guzman, M. 1992.
Will the gentleman please yield?: a defense of the constitutionality of state-imposed term limitations. Policy Analysis 178. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. 32 pp.
Grofman, B., ed. 1996.
Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives. Boston: Kluwer. 385 pp.
Gurwitt, R. 1996.
Greenhorn government. Governing 9: 15-19
Hanson, K. 1997a.
Living with the limits. State Legislatures 23: 13-19
Hanson, K. 1997b.
Term limits for better or worse. State Legislatures 23: 50-57
Hanson, K. 1997c.
The third revolution. State Legislatures 23: 20-26
Hibbing, JR. 1991.
Congressional Careers: Contours of Life in the U.S. House of Representatives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 213 pp.
Hickok, EW. 1992.
The Reform of the State Legislatures and the Changing Character of Representation. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 159 pp.
Hodson, T, Jones, R, Kurtz, K, Moncrief, G. 1995.
Leaders and limits: changing patterns of state legislative leadership under term limits. Spectrum 68: 6-15
Hummel, M. 1998.
The empire strikes back: a history of political and judicial attacks on term limits. Term Limits Outlook Series 6. Washington, DC: US Term Limits. 54 pp.
Karp, J. 1995.
Explaining public support for legislative term limits. Public Opinion Quarterly 59: 373-391
Katches, M. Weintruab, D. 1997.
The tremors of term limits. State Legislatures 23: 21-25
Katz, J. 1991.
The uncharted realm of term limitation. Governing 4: 35-39
Kesler, C. 1990.
Bad house keeping: The case against congressional term limits. Policy Review 53: 20-25
King, J. 1993.
Term limits in Wyoming. Comparative State Politics 14: 1-18
Klein, M. 1989.
The Twenty-Second Amendment: Term Limitation in the Exectutive Branch. Washington DC: Americans to Limit Congressional Terms. 7 pp.
Klein, M. 1989.
Limiting Congressional Terms: An Historical Perspective. Washington DC: Americans to Limit Congressional Terms. 8 pp.
Kobach, K. 1994.
Rethinking article V: term limits and the seventeenth and nineteenth amendments. Yale Law Journal 103: 1971-2007
Kristol, W. 1993.
Term limitations: breaking up the iron triangle. Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 16: 95-100
Kurfirst, R. 1996.
Term-limit logic: paradigms and paradoxes. Polity 29: 119-141
Kurtz, K. 1992.
Limiting terms: what's in store? State Legislatures 18: 32-34
Lee, L. July 1994.
The end of an era in Ohio. State Legislatures 20: 24-29
Lewis, C. 1991.
The proposition 140 aftermath: was the golden handshake a boon or a bust? California Journal 22: 249-254
Mann, T. 1992.
The wrong medicine: term limits won't cure what ails congressional elections. Brookings Review 10: 23-25
Mayhew, D. 1974.
Congress: The Electoral Connection. New Haven: Yale University Press. 194 pp.
Mitchell, CD. 1991.
Limiting congressional terms: a return to fundamental democracy. Journal of Law and Politics 7: 733-746
Moncrief, GF, Thompson, JA., eds. 1992.
Changing Patterns in State Legislative Careers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. 237 pp.
Moncrief, G, Thompson, J, Haddon, M, Hoyer, R. 1992.
For whom the bell tolls: term limits and state legislatures. Legislative Studies Quarterly 17: 37-47
Mondak, J. 1995a.
Focusing the term limits debate. Political Research Quarterly 48: 741-750
Mondak, J. 1995b.
Elections as filters: term limits and the composition of the US House. Political Research Quarterly 48: 701-727
Montgomery, P. 1990.
Should congressional terms be limited? Common Cause Magazine 16: 31- 33
Moore, D. 1995.
Failure of term limits bill unlikely to cause repercussions. Gallup Poll Monthly 355: 15-16
Moore, M., Hibbing, J. 1996.
Length of congressional tenure and federal spending: were the voters of Washington state correct? American Politics Quarterly 24: 131-149
Muir, WK. 1983.
Legislature: California's School for Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Noah, RL. 1998.
The Limited Legislature: The Effects of Term Limits on State Legislative Organization. PhD. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 245 pp.
Ornstein, NJ. 1990.
The permanent Democractic Congress. Public Interest 100: 24-45
Payne, J. 1991.
Limiting government By limiting congressional terms. The Public Interest 103: 106-117
Peery, G. 1996.
Transcending term limits. State Legislatures 22: 20-25.
Petracca, M. 1993.
A new defense of state-imposed congressional term limits. PS: Political Science & Politics 26: 700-705
Petracca, M. 1992.
Why Political Scientists Oppose Term Limits. Cato Institute Briefing Paper 14. Washington DC: Cato Institute. 10 pp.
Petracca, M. 1995.
A comment on "elections as filters". Political Research Quarterly 48: 729- 740
Petracca, M. 1996.
A Legislature in Transition: The California Experience with Term Limits. Working Paper 96-1. Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies Press. 47 pp.
Petracca, M., Jump, D. 1992.
From coast to coast: the term limitation express. National Civic Review 81: 352-365
Petracca, M, and O'Brien, KM. 1994.
Municipal term limits in Orange County California. National Civic Review 83: 183-195
Petracca, M, Smith, P. 1990.
How frequent is frequent enough?: an appraisal of the four-year term for House members. Congress & the Presidency 17: 46-66
Polsby, NW. 1975.
Legislatures. In Handbook of Political Science: Governmental Institutions and Processes, Vol. 5. pp. 257-319 Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Polsby, NW. 1991.
Constitutional mischief: what's wrong with term limitations. American Prospect 6: 40-43
Polsby, NW. 1993.
Some arguments against congressional term limitations. Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 16: 101-107
Price, C. 1993.
Advocacy in the age of term limits: lobbying after Proposition 140. California Journal 24: 31-34
Price, C, Bacciocco, E. 1994.
Is this a far, far better thing than we have ever done before? California Journal 21: 497-499
Reed, WR, Schansberg, DE. 1994.
An analysis of the impact of congressional term limits. Economic Inquiry 32: 79-91
Reed, WR, Schansberg, DE. 1995.
The House under term limits: focusing on the big picture. Social Science Quarterly 76 : 734-740
Reed, WR, Schansberg, DE. 1996.
Term limits, responsiveness and the failures of increased competition. In Grofman, B. Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives. pp. 101-116 Boston: Kluwer
Reed, WR, Schansberg, DE, Wilbanks, J., Zhu, Z. 1998.
The relationship between congressional spending and tenure with an application to term limits. Public Choice 94: 85-104
Schrag, P. 1996.
The populist road to hell. American Prospect 24: 24-30
Scott, S. 1996.
Sacramento's Youth Movement. California Journal 27: 16-21
Southwell, P, Waquespack, D. 1997.
Support for term limits and voting behavior in congressional elections. Social Science Journal 34: 81-89
Squire, P. 1992.
Legislative professionalization and membership diversity in state legislatures. Legislative Studies Quarterly 17: 69-79
Stein, RM, Bikers, KN. 1994.
Congressional elections and the pork barrel. Journal of Politics 56: 377-400
Strubble, R, Jahre, ZW. 1991.
Rotation in office: rapid but restricted to the House. PS: Political Science & Politics 24: 34-37
Sullivan, K. 1995.
Dueling sovereignties: U.S. Term Limits, INC. v Thornton. Harvard Law Review 109: 78-109
Thomas, JC. 1995.
The term limitations movement in U.S. citites. National Civic Review 81: 155-174
U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, 115 S. Ct. 1842 (1995)
Weintraub, D. 1991.
Limits stand in California. State Legislatures 17: 12-13.
Weintraub, D. 1994.
California leaders look at limits. State Legislatures 20: 40-44
Weintraub, D. 1997.
California term limits: up in the air. State Legislatures 23: 13
Will, GF 1992.
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. New York: Free Press. 260 pp.