Contested, Violated But Persistent Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Charlotte Heyl (Editore), Mariana Llanos (Editore), Llanos Mariana (Editore)
• Autori: Charlotte (Giga Institute for African Affair Heyl
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 26.08.2024
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva
• EAN: 9781032398686
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239868-6
• Numero di pagine: 204
• Categorie: Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: democracy, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Political leaders and leadership, Sub-Saharan Africa, Democratic Backsliding, institutional resilience, Comparative Constitutionalism, political succession studies, autocratization processes, constitutional amendment strategies in democracies, executive power erosion