Contested, Violated but Persistent (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000820218
• Artikelnr.: 66655450

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