Council of State Governments-WEST

FUTURE OF WESTERN LEGISLATURES

Special Report on Legislative Civility

Term Limits:

• Life with Term Limits: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Cares

• State Legislative Term Limits

• Turnover: The Impact of Term Limits

• Public Affairs Specialists' Perceptions of How Term Limits Has Changed Their Job

• Public Affairs Specialists' Perceptions of the Changing Influence Patterns Under Term Limits

• Public Affairs Specialists' Perceptions of How Term Limits Affect the Internal Dynamics of the Legislature

Direct Democracy: Initiatives and Recalls

• Provisions for Initiative and Popular Referendum in the United States

• California Direct Initiatives Titled, Qualified and Adopted (1912-2002)

• National Initiative Usage by Decade (1901-2000)

• Are Initiatives Good?

• State Adoption of and Provisions for Recall of State Officials

• Western Initiatives: Challenge to Representative Democracy

Legislative Institutions and Representative Democracy

• Heavy Lifting: The Job of the Legislatures

• Growth in Constituency Size

• Workload Increase in Western States Over a Generation - Bill Introductions & Enactments

• Increase in Session Length

• What Percentage of a Full-time Job is Your Legislative Work?

• Average Turnover in State Legislature, By Decade

• Veteran Legislators' Perceptions of Change

• Lawmakers Meet the Media

• Special Report: Western Lawmakers Meet the Media

• Will Internet Referendums Destroy Representative Democracy?

• Lawmakers Look at Election Law Reform

• The Decline of Representative Democracy