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Author Depalo, Kathryn A., author.

Title The failure of term limits in Florida / Kathryn A. DePalo ; foreword by David R. Colburn and Susan A. MacManus
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Florida government and politics
Florida government and politics.
Contents Introduction: the campaign for term limits -- Change 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Florida. Legislature -- Term of office
SUBJECT Florida. Legislature fast
Subject Term limits (Public office) -- Florida
Legislators -- Term of office -- Florida
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General.
Legislators -- Term of office
Politics and government
Term limits (Public office)
SUBJECT Florida -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049240
Subject Florida
Form Electronic book
Author Colburn, David R., writer of foreword
MacManus, Susan A., writer of foreword
ISBN 9780813055107
0813055105
9780813050744
081305074X