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Changing Patterns in State Legislative Careers. (book reviews)

American Political Science Review,  December, 1993  by Rosenthal, Alan

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>This collection of work by 15 political scientists is a fine example of contemporary research on state legislatures. As the title indicates, the volume explores how patterns have been changing, in terms of legislative careers, both electorally and institutionally. Allowing for the wide variation in state legislatures--from the full-time careerist bodies in California, New York, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to the part-time citizen bodies in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Hampshire, and Vermont--this research takes off from the major themes of professionalization, institutionalization, and ...

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