The impact of legislative term limits on women's representation has developed through several stages. After term limits reforms passed but before they took affect, research suggested that women's representation would increase due to the forced retirement of - mostly-male incumbents. After term...

Scholars routinely use the 2-party presidential vote in a given legislative district as a proxy for the ideology of that district's constituents. Scholars also freely admit that this measure is imperfect, but works well as a proxy for the 2-party balance and is very easy to obtain. This paper...