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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459748003321

Autore

Depalo Kathryn A.

Titolo

The failure of term limits in Florida / / Kathryn A. DePalo ; foreword by David R. Colburn and Susan A. MacManus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5074-X

0-8130-5510-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Florida Government and Politics

Disciplina

328.759/073

Soggetti

Term limits (Public office) - Florida

Legislators - Term of office - Florida

Electronic books.

Florida Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.