The Test of Time

Reviews / Votes

Scholars and students alike will want this book for the detailed analysis of the term-limits movement and for the careful application of that analysis to legislative theories. This book pulls together all that we know and establishes where our research should move next. -- Gary Copeland, University of Oklahoma This is a valuable, well-designed study that provides some of the first answers about how the term limits movement of the 1990s will affect state politics in the future. -- Todd Donovan, Western Washington University The enactment of legislative term limits gave political scientists an extraordinary opportunity to study the impact of a fundamental change. The Test of Time provides an important benchmark and assessment of this change. The book is rich in case studies, comparisons across states, and evaluations of broader implications; and it provides a wonderful annotated bibliography. The book is an important contribution. -- David B. Magleby The Test of TIme is an important contribution to the already considerable literature on tern limits. The editors have brought together a number of sober and carefully researched papers that should give pause to those who predicted that term limits were destined to remake America's politics, for good or ill. * Public Choice * These important studies and an extensive annotated bibliography of previous research on term limits make this collection a good starting point for any serious future research on the topic. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * After ten years of speculation about the effects of term limits, we now have some evidence. The contributors to this useful collection have worked systematically to produce an intriguing analysis. -- Alan Rosenthal, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University