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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
