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Presidential Term Limits as a Credible-Commitment Mechanism

2019
Abstract Contra the conventional wisdom that term limits are meaningless in dictatorships, Brazil’s military regime developed term-limits for its chief executives and managed a durable political order. This chapter argue that term limits moderated intra-elite conflicts, thus contributing to regime stability.
Octavio Amorim Neto, Igor P. Acácio
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Presidential Term Limits, the Never-Ending Debate

2020
Against the backdrop of the so-called “rise of strong men,” this introductory chapter places the phenomenon of term alteration in the office of the president within a broad historical and scholarly framework that interrogates the slow erosion of the democratic norm of presidential term limits in Africa and around the world.
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The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Malawi

2019
Abstract Malawi witnessed the institution of a “life-presidency” shortly after gaining independence in 1964. With the transition to democracy in the mid-1990s, term limits became a central component of the country’s constitutional order. While they have survived intact, they have been targeted for revision or removal on two occasions. In
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The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico

2019
Abstract In Mexico’s presidential system, the struggle over term limits was at the heart of efforts to institutionalize regimes from 1857 through 1933. Before the 1910 Revolution, Porfirio Díaz both called for his predecessors’ overthrow by appealing to the principle of no-re-election and then manipulated that principle in order to stay ...
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Constitutionalism and the Future of Presidential Term Limits in Africa

2020
In the aftermath of the end of the Cold War, the vast majority of African presidential regimes adopted the constitutional rule limiting the number of terms their chief executives could serve in office. Among other political and institutional reforms initiated at that time, this cardinal rule of democratic governance was intended to create ...
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The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Central America

2019
Abstract This chapter studies presidential term limits—understood as limits on presidential re-elections and term lengths—in four Central American electoral democracies: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Its contribution is threefold.
Juan Muñoz-Portillo, Ilka Treminio
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Presidential Term Limits in Burkina Faso

2019
Abstract Burkina Faso exemplifies the consequences of presidential hubris, when a president tinkers with term limits to remain in power. Term limits became the rallying cry for opponents to President Blaise Compaoré’s attempts at perpetuating his rule.
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Costs and benefits of accepting presidential term limits

2021
As presidents approach the end of their constitutionally defined term in office, they face a number of difficulties, most importantly the deprivation of sources of power, personal enrichment, and protection from prosecution. This leads many of them to attempt to circumvent their term limits.
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Limitation of presidential terms in Zambia: annotating the judicial interpretation

Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 2019
On 7 December 2018, the Constitutional Court of Zambia delivered a judgment which has sparked controversy in the political arena.
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The effect of unamendable presidential term limits in Francophone Africa

2020
Presidents engage in overstay attempts, seeking to extend their rule beyond what term limits allow. This challenge to constitutionalism has not circumvented Francophone Africa. With a history of "imperial" presidents and life-long rule, many states in the region sought to constitutionally entrench their term limits by making them unnameable. This paper
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