The Impact of Ethics Laws on Legislative Recruitment and the Occupational Composition of State Legislatures

摘要: Over the past half-century, ethics laws have proliferated at federal, state, and local levels, yet their effects are not well understood. Critics of charged that financial disclosure requirements restrictions on outside income deter individuals from pursuing public service. However, empirical testing this claim has been lacking. This study examines impact substantive state legislative recruitment in 1990s changing occupational composition legislatures between 1976 1995. Ethics found to several decision run occupations represented. I suggest these necessarily all negative.