Contested, Violated but Persistent (eBook, PDF)

Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Redaktion: Heyl, Charlotte; Llanos, Mariana

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Produktbeschreibung

This book generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing together scholarship on Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing context-bound intraregional research and long-term perspectives for study of presidential term-limit change. These chapters were originally published as special issue of Democratization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000820195
• Artikelnr.: 66655542

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Heyl is Associate Fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Affairs, Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on judicial politics, elections, and presidentialism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Heyl earned her doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She has conducted field research in Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, and Senegal. Mariana Llanos is Lead Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies and Professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She has published extensively on comparative political institutions in Latin America, particularly on the countries of the Southern Cone. Her current research focuses on presidential impeachments, courts-executive relations, and the personalization of power.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Contested, violated but persistent: presidential term limits
in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa 1. Sequences of
presidential-term-Limits: Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa 2. Tinkering
with executive term limits: partisan imbalances and institutional legacies
in Latin America 3. Authoritarian origins of term limit trajectories in
Africa 4. When incumbents do not run: presidential succession and
democratization 5. Costs and benefits of accepting presidential term
limits: "should I stay or should I go?" 6. The "Big Five" personality
traits of presidents and the relaxation of term limits in Latin America 7.
Do contravention attempts affect public support for presidential term
limits?: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa 8. Protecting democracy from
abroad: democracy aid against attempts to circumvent presidential term
limits 9. Militant democracy and the pre-emptive constitution: from party
bans to hardened term limits