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The Politics of Presidential Term Limits (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Presidential Term Limits (Hardcover)
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Presidential term limits restrict the maximum length of time that
presidents can serve in office. They stipulate the length of term
the presidents can serve between elections and the number of terms
that presidents are permitted to serve. While comparative
scholarship has long studied important institutions such
presidentialism vs. parliamentarism and the effects of different
electoral systems, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the
role and effects of presidential term limits. Yet presidential term
limits and term lengths are one of the most fundamental
institutions of democracy. By ensuring compulsory rotation in
office, they are at the heart of a democratic dilemma. What is the
appropriate trade-off between allowing the unrestricted selection
of candidates at presidential elections vs. restricting selection
procedures to prevent the possibility of dictatorial takeover by
presidents who are unwilling to step down? In the context of a long
and on-going history of changes to presidential term limits and the
many and varied ways in which term limits have been both applied
and avoided, this book explains the factors behind the
introduction, stability, abolition, and avoidance of presidential
term limits, as well as the consequences of changes to presidential
term limits, and it does so in the context of non-democracies,
third-wave countries, and consolidated democracies. It includes
comparative, theoretical, and practitioner-oriented chapters, as
well as detailed country case studies of presidential term limits
across the world and over time.
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