More churn in Congress would decrease the value of any one congressperson to private industry, and would also reduce the tendency of members of Congress to amas

More churn in Congress would decrease the value of any one congressperson to private industry, and would also reduce the tendency of members of Congress to amass large numbers of markers that they call in later. It would also change the entire dynamic of Congress, to be less of a club and more of a transitional job, people coming from some other job -- some of them perhaps even hoping to do the right thing regardless of political fallout -- and then disappearing from the public stage and moving on to another stage their lives, rather than turning elected service into their lives. A seminal paper on this subject from 1968, The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives, by Nelson Polsby: http://crespin.myweb.uga.edu/polsby.pdf http://crespin.myweb.uga.edu/polsby.pdf