@article{ff8d9fbfdfdc4e4c8f2f5e4f74e1eb5f,
title = "The Legal History of State Legislative Vacancies and Temporary Appointments",
author = "Quinn Yeargain",
note = "We love paying attention to special elections. They operate as catharsis for opposition parties and activists, easily serve as proxies for how well the governing party is doing, and are ripe for over-extrapolation by prognosticators. But in thirty states and territories throughout the United States, state legislative vacancies are filled by a combination of special elections and temporary appointments.",
year = "2020",
language = "American English",
volume = "28",
journal = "Journal of Law and Policy",
}