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Mooney, Christopher. "Thank You, Paul Jacob: State Legislative Term Limits as a Boon to Legislative Scholarship" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211029_index.html>

Mooney, C. Z. , 2007-08-30 "Thank You, Paul Jacob: State Legislative Term Limits as a Boon to Legislative Scholarship" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211029_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: After an unusually swift reform movement in the 1990s, 15 states are now adjusting to the most significant institutional change in state government in a generation—legislative term limits. Beyond presenting political scientists with the basic task of identifying and cataloging its wide variety of substantive impacts, this reform provides scholars with an unprecedented opportunity to test and extend legislative theory. Most legislative theory is supported by behavioral assumptions that term limits appear to threaten. In particular, the assumption that legislators are driven by a re-election motivation is the foundation of both most positive and more informal explanations of the legislative process. This assumption must be modified—if not rejected completely—in the presence of term limits, giving a unique opportunity to test these theories. I describe some of the benefits of using term limits to test and extend legislative theory by reviewing the existing literature on the subject. In the process, I also highlight term limits’ exceptional methodological advantages for theory testing (exogeneity, strong research designs, and significant variation on the causal variable) and explicate the potential causal mechanisms at work with the reform.

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