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The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance . By David E. Lewis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 312p. $66.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

For example, turnover of members has increased in most term-limited states. In other respects, it calls into question conventional expectations. There is little evidence, for example, that term limits reduced the power of incumbency. Still other of the volume’s findings were not entirely anticipated. There is evidence, for example, that the relationship between upper and lower houses in term-limited states has grown more contentious in the post–term limits era. Because of the range of issues it covers and the care with which it presents and assesses the empirical evidence, the book provides a significant baseline for the future study of the long-term impact of term limits on state legislatures, and is likely to inspire future inquiry into this important topic. For undergraduate students and the general public, the book furnishes a highly accessible account of the real impact of term limits on state legislatures. In particular, it provides a very objective portrait of how term limits have changed the membership of state legislatures and how this increase in new members has impacted representation, the functioning of state legislatures, and the making of policy in the American states. The objective approach allows readers to draw their own conclusions and pass their own judgments regarding whether term limits have achieved the desired goals or have instead been detrimental to state legislatures and policy formulation. The book is thus an excellent resource for instructors. In sum, the editors and contributors of Institutional Change in America have provided the discipline with an informative and important starting point in determining the impact of term limits on state legislatures. Most impressively, they accomplished this task in a format that is both accessible and interesting to a wide range of audiences, from scholars to the general public.