Other: Why Term Limits Don't Work

This scholarly¹ article by Eric Prier and Kevin Wagner on the effect of term limits imposed on state legislators in Florida and Maine provides a disheartening argument against term limits for legislators. Instead of fostering greater competition and innovation in the legislatures' make-up, they've produced incumbents who have no real incentive to please their constituency in their last term and thus effectively have no accountability, and, because a new contender need only wait a few years before running for an open seat, many people run unopposed for their last term.

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¹As in, the authors actually analyzed hard numbers rather than pulling random opinions straight out of their asses.