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Overturning Term Limits: The Legislature's Own Private Idaho?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2003

Daniel A. Smith
Daniel A. Smith
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associate professor of political science at the University of Denver and the author of Tax Crusaders and the Politics of Direct Democracy (Routledge, 1998). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation (BISCF) and has published widely on the process and politics of direct democracy, interest groups, and political parties in the American states. He would like to thank Gary Moncrief, Dan Levin, and his colleagues last year at the University of Florida, particularly Jeff Gill and Dave Hedge, for their critical feedback on this article. He can be contacted at dasmith@du.edu.
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 215 - 220
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