Term Limits and Legislative Representation

ISBN-13: 9780521646017 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 234 str.

John M. Carey

Opis

This volume examines the electoral experience of Costa Rica, the only long-term democracy to impose term limits on legislators, and provides comparisons with legislatures in Venezuela and the United States. The author challenges claims made about the effects of term limits on political careers, pork barrel politics, and the effectiveness of political parties in passing their programmes.

Recenzje

"Carey observes and applies multivariate statistical analysis to a large number of politicians, and his core theoretical argument comes from the U.S. legislative literature." Barry Ames, Latin American Research Review

Spis treści

Part I. Term Limits and Comparative Politics: 1. The electoral disconnection?; 2. Institutions and electoral reform: comparing the cases; Part II. The Latin American Cases: 3. Term limits and political careers; 4. Term limits and particularism; 5. Term limits and legislative party cohesiveness; Part III. Term Limits and the United States: 6. The last term problem; 7. Applying lessons about term limits.