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Contested, Violated but Persistent - Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa (Hardcover)
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Contested, Violated but Persistent - Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa (Hardcover)
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Presidential term limits have been a crucial institutional feature
of the third wave of democratization. They are meant to safeguard
democracy by promoting alternation in office and preventing the
personalization of power. However, since the 1990s term limits have
been subject to frequent contestation by incumbents. Such
contestation process has often been considered a sign of
autocratization, particularly when it involves the weakening of
other constitutional constraints, such as courts and legislatures.
Term-limit contestations have attracted the attention of scholars
working with a global perspective as well as with a regional or
country-specific one too. Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa are
focal points of these trends, despite their different histories of
presidentialism and diverging types of term-limit rules. This book
generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing
together the scholarship on Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa,
providing context-bound intraregional research as well as long-term
perspectives for the study of term-limit change. The chapters
advance novel findings on institutionalization, the power of
precedence, incumbent-centred strategies, and approaches to protect
presidential term limits. This volume will be of great use to
students and researchers interested in Latin American and African
studies, comparative politics as well as political leadership. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Democratization.
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