The Politics of Presidential Term Limits

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• ISBN 10: 0192574353
• ISBN 13: 9780192574350
• Author:Alexander Baturo,Robert Elgie

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.

Table contents:

1:Presidential Term Limits, Alexander Baturo and Robert Elgie
2:Theorizing Presidential Rotation
3:One Size Does Not Fit All: The Provision and Interpretation of Presidential Term Limits
4:Term Limits and the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine: Lessons from Latin America
5:Continuismo in Comparison: Avoidance, Extension, and Removal of Presidential Term Limits
6:Presidential Term Limits in Latin America: ca. 1820-1985
7:Presidential Term Limits as a Credible-Commitment Mechanism: The Case of Brazil’s Military Regim
8:The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico
9:Presidential term limits in Nicaragua
10:The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Tunisia
11:Presidential Term Limits in Togo: Electoral Accountability Postponednn
12:Presidential terms in Kazakhstan: Less is More?
13:China: Limiting and Regularizing Top Political Power
14:Term Limits and Succession in Dictatorships
15:The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Malawi
16:Should I Stay or Should I Go? Term-limits, elections, and political change in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia
17:Senegal (1970-2016): Presidential Term Limit Reforms Never Come Alone
18:Presidential Term Limits in Burkina Faso
19:The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Term Limits in Russian Politics
20:The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in the US
21:Presidential Term Limits in Europe
22:Term Limits in South Korea: Promises and Perils
23:The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Argentina
24:The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
25:The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America – From Redemocratization to Today
26:Presidential Term Limits in Bolivia
27:Presidential Term Limits and the International Community, Christina Murray
28:Effects of Presidential Term Limits
29:What have we learned about presidential term limits?

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