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Term-limit advocates argue that limits have a positive influence on legislative behaviour: they minimize the incentives for re-election based on “pork-barrel” legislation; the parliamentary mandate ceases to be seen as a career instead of a temporary assignment to public service, and consequently MPs spend less time posturing, raising money for their re-election campaigns and running for office. Term limits thus foster better representation, reduce the ideological divergence between the electorate and their representatives, and increase the elected representatives’ responsiveness toward the electorate. They remove the intense focus on politics and place it back on policy. Term limited politicians may also be willing to take positions of principle on politically controversial issues that protect the interests of minorities and human rights.