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Contested, Violated but Persistent Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction: Contested, violated but persistent: presidential term limits in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
Charlotte Heyl and Mariana Llanos
1. Sequences of presidential-term-Limits: Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
Charlotte Heyl and Mariana Llanos
2. Tinkering with executive term limits: partisan imbalances and institutional legacies in Latin America
Gabriel L. Negretto
3. Authoritarian origins of term limit trajectories in Africa
Christof Hartmann
4. When incumbents do not run: presidential succession and democratization
Alexander Baturo
5. Costs and benefits of accepting presidential term limits: "should I stay or should I go?"
Anna Fruhstorfer and Alexander Hudson
6. The "Big Five" personality traits of presidents and the relaxation of term limits in Latin America
Ignacio Arana Araya
7. Do contravention attempts affect public support for presidential term limits?: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Kristin McKie and Elizabeth Carlson
8. Protecting democracy from abroad: democracy aid against attempts to circumvent presidential term limits
Daniel Nowack and Julia Leininger
9. Militant democracy and the pre-emptive constitution: from party bans to hardened term limits
Zachary Elkins
Biography
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.
