Just a quick re-post from “The Ticket”, the state leg blog. Basically, term limits are bad for legislatures, representation, etc. Basically, detrimental to democracy all around (see here). This is one of my favorite examples of how some folks can still support a position after it’s been empirically shown to be detrimental and satisfy none of their justifying conditions. The literature is pretty consistent: term limits are a bad idea. And yet, a la Rick Perry, the idea still gets tossed around, even by people that ought to know better. Which may or may not include Perry.
