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March 26, 2017 | Government

By Thad Kousser

The knowledge of time period limits politics has been debated because the time of Aristotle, spurring 'reforms' of legislatures in Athens, Rome, Venice, and within the US below the Articles of Confederation. This ebook examines fresh developments in American states with a view to examine the age-old query of ways the foundations that govern a legislature have an effect on the habit of its participants and the rules that it produces. The transparent and constant discovering is that the 2 reforms have countervailing results: no matter what professionalization has introduced extra of, time period limits have lowered. This lesson comes from quantitative analyses of information from all fifty states and distinct examinations of legislative documents from six states, knowledgeable by way of interviews with over 100 legislators, employees assistants, lobbyists, newshounds, and government officials.

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