Term Limits and Bipartisan Collaboration

What is it about?

This article is concerned with how term limits structure legislator decisions to collaborate across party lines. Using data on bill cosponsorship from 41 states, we demonstrate that term limits reduce bipartisan cosponsorship due to altered incentives for legislators.

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Why is it important?

Given the increased attention to questions of polarization and gridlock, we believe scholars should be particularly interested in understanding how legislators collaborate with one another.