The failure of term limits in Florida
Introduction: the campaign for term limitsChange comes to the Florida legislature -- Electoral competition and the new incumbency advantage -- A different breed of Florida legislators -- Political career paths of term limited legislators -- The race for leadership -- Loss of institutional memory and...
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Gainesville, Fla. u.a.
University Press of Florida
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Florida government and politics
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: the campaign for term limitsChange comes to the Florida legislature -- Electoral competition and the new incumbency advantage -- A different breed of Florida legislators -- Political career paths of term limited legislators -- The race for leadership -- Loss of institutional memory and the business of the legislature -- Filling the void: governors, staff, and lobbyists -- Term limits and the future of the Florida legislature. Proponents of term limits have constantly argued that term limits of its legislature created more honest and creative legislative body, but DePalo's twenty-year study of term limits in Florida shows this is not the case, finding that term limits create a more powerful governor, legislative staffers, and lobbyists |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 242 pages ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780813060484 978-0-8130-6048-4 |