This paper consults multiple literatures to specify and evaluate the economic rationales for term limitation, particularly on Congress. Two main lines of argument are considered, both of which begin with the empirical phenomenon of high and rising congressional tenure. First, supporters of term...

Previous research has shown that divided government correlates with more constrained government, but less is understood about the empirical conditions that lead to divided government. This paper treats divided government as the dependent variable in an empirical macro political economy model...