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Sequences of presidential-term-Limit reforms: Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
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Abstract In this article we take a longitudinal view on presidential-term-limit reforms in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa since the third wave of democratization. Many countries in the two regions (re-)introduced term limits at this time as a democratic safeguard against personal rule and power abuses.... mehr
In this article we take a longitudinal view on presidential-term-limit reforms in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa since the third wave of democratization. Many countries in the two regions (re-)introduced term limits at this time as a democratic safeguard against personal rule and power abuses. Since then, term limits have been contested by a plethora of reform attempts. Such reforms are commonly seen as a risk to democracy since stable institutions are considered essential for democratic consolidation, while term-limit eliminations are associated with processes of autocratization. From the literature on democratic consolidation, institutionalization and presidential-term-limit reforms we distil theoretical expectations on term-limit-reform paths across time and examine how they relate to the evolution of the political regime. To empirically investigate reform paths across regions we apply the research method of sequence analysis. We find that the stability of term-limit rules is more prevalent than expected, but that this stability sometimes masks institutional ineffectiveness under authoritarian regimes. Rule instability induced by frequent reforms can be part of a piecemeal path towards autocratization, but it can also reflect an open-ended tug of war between authoritarian tendencies and democratic resistance.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Präsidialsystem; Lateinamerika; Afrika südlich der Sahara; Institutionalisierung; Demokratisierung; Politik; politischer Wandel; autoritäres System; Systemveränderung; politische Geschichte
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Freie Schlagwörter
Amtszeit; Amtszeitbegrenzung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 18-37
Zeitschriftentitel
Democratization, 29 (2022) 1
Heftthema
Contested, Violated but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1980540
ISSN
1743-890X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)