Books by John M. (Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences Carey

This book considers what collective and individual accountability require and provides the most extensive cross-national analysis of legislative voting undertaken to date. Drawing on extensive filed and archival research, Carey illustrates the balance between individualistic and collective representation in democracies, and how party unity in legislative voting shapes that balance.

Term Limits and Legislative Representation tests the central arguments made by both supporters and opponents of legislative term limits. Professor Carey examines the experience of Costa Rica, the only long-term democracy to impose term limits on legislators, and provides extensive comparisons with legislatures in Venezuela and the United States.