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Effects of term limits in Arkansas: new faces and new ideas.(PERSPECTIVES: Term Limits)

Publication: Spectrum: the Journal of State Government
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Imagine that you are an Arkansan in the voting booth on Election Day. As you scan your choices, you can practically hear your legislator whispering, "If you don't reelect me, the district will lose the advantages of my seniority." You know this particular legislator is dishonest and but you a...

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...incompetent, also know that if you replace him, your district goes to the back of the line for committee assignments and local spending projects. So you vote for the guy--again.

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The seniority system left Arkansans little choice but to return their legislators to office year after year, decade after decade. The Arkansas Legislature remained firmly ensconced in the hands of powerful few who governed uncreatively...

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