Cover -- The Politics of Presidential Term Limits -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1: Presidential Term Limits -- CHOICES, CHOICES—CONSTITUTIONS AND PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS -- THE PROS AND CONS OF PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS -- THE INTRODUCTION, ABOLITION, AND AMENDMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS -- THE EFFECT OF PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS -- BOOK STRUCTURE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Section I -- 2: Theorizing Presidential Rotation -- ROTATION IN OFFICE -- ROTATION IN ANCIENT GREECE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3: One Size Does Not Fit All: The Provision and Interpretation of Presidential Term Limits -- EXECUTIVE TERM LIMITS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE -- TERM LIMIT EVASION -- UNAMENDABILITY -- JURISPRUDENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4: Term Limits and the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine: Lessons from Latin America -- THE RISE OF THE UCA DOCTRINE -- THE UCA DOCTRINE AND TERM LIMITS -- VARIABLE OUTCOMES -- Courts Blocking Amendments to Extend Term Limit: Colombia 2010 -- Courts Allowing Amendments to Extend Term Limits: Ecuador 2014 -- Courts Holding Term Limits to Be Unconstitutional: Honduras 2015 -- TRANSNATIONAL ANCHORING AND TERM LIMIT DECISIONS IN LATIN AMERICA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5: Continuismo in Comparison: Avoidance, Extension, and Removal of Presidential Term Limits -- PRESIDENTIAL CONTINUISMO -- CONTINUISMO: “EXTENDERS,” TIMES, COMPONENTS (TYPES) -- TYPOLOGY OF CONTINUISMO -- Continuismo: Avoidance -- Continuismo: Extension -- Continuismo: Removal -- Continuismo: Summary -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONTINUISMO FOR PRESIDENTS IN OFFICE -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Section II -- 6: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America: c.1820–1985 -- PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN LATINAMERICA: A SHORT OVERVIEW -- DEBATES AND ARGUMENTS ON PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN LATIN AMERICA -- PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7: Presidential Term Limits as aCredible-Commitment MechanismThe Case of Brazil’s Military Regime -- INTRODUCTION: BRAZIL’S LONG MILITARY REGIME -- THE MILITARY IN POLITICS -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AND COMPLIANCE WITH TERM LIMITS IN BRAZIL -- Empirical Analysis -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF TERM LIMITS, THEIR ABOLITION, AND ABUSE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8: The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico -- THE HISTORY OF TERM LIMITS IN MEXICO -- THE OPERATION OF THE COMPLETELY TERM-LIMITED POST-REVOLUTIONARY REGIME -- CONSEQUENCES OF TERM LIMITS -- Presidential Domination of Congress -- Clientelism -- Corruption -- Individual Mobility -- Generational Succession -- The Sexennial Cycle -- CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 9: Presidential Term Limits in Nicaragua -- PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN NICARAGUA -- An Overview of Nicaragua’s Political History -- ADOPTING TERM LIMITS IN NICARAGUA -- ENDING TERM LIMITS IN NICARAGUA -- CONSEQUEN.
CES OF TERM LIMITS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 10: The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Tunisia -- TERM LIMITS IN POSTCOLONIAL TUNISIA -- BEN ALI’S FAÇADE DEMOCRACY -- HOW TERM LIMITS WERE INTRODUCED, MAINTAINED, AND ABOLISHED -- Term Limits and Post-Revolutionary Politics -- CONSEQUENCES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 11: Presidential Term Limits in Togo: Electoral Accountability Postponed -- TERM LIMITS IN TOGO: A CHRONOLOGY OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE -- The First Republic -- The Second Republic -- The End of the Second Republic—Enter Eyadéma -- The Third Republic to 2005 -- The Sovereign National Conference and Term Limits -- ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN REFORMS -- Institutional Elements of Eyadéma’s Rule -- Democratic Backsliding and Term Limits -- The King is Dead! Long Live the King! -- Opposing Clan Rule is a Dangerous Game -- CONSEQUENCES OF PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS AND THEIR ABSENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 12: Presidential Terms in Kazakhstan: Less is More? -- FROM INDIRECT TO DIRECT ELECTION AND THE FIRST SHORTENED TERM IN OFFICE: 1990–91 -- NEW CONSTITUTIONS AND NEW TERM OF OFFICE: 1991–95 -- FROM FIVE-YEAR TO SEVEN-YEAR TERM: 1995–2007 -- Fending Off Challengers in the Early Election of 1999 -- Supressing Opposition and Staying Ahead in the Electoral Game -- FROM TWO-TERM LIMIT TO NO LIMIT: 2007–PRESENT -- CONSEQUENCES OF TERM LIMITS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 13: China: Limiting and Regularizing Top Political Power -- THE CHINESE PRESIDENCY: INSTITUTIONAL DESIGNS -- EVOLUTION OF TERM LIMITING INSTITUTIONS -- The Early Republic(s): 1912–49 -- Party Rule and Party Politics 1949–78 -- Post-1980: Long Path toward Institutionalization -- TERM LIMITS IN CHINA: LOGIC AND CONTEXT -- REVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS -- INSTITUTIONALIZING SUCCESSION -- TERMS AS COOPERATION ENABLING INSTITUTIONS -- CHALLENGES AND UNCERTAINTIES -- INTO THE XI JINPING ERA -- CONSEQUENCES OF TERM LIMITS IN CHINA -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 14: Term Limits and Succession in Dictatorships -- THE IMPORTANCE OF TERM LIMITS IN AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES -- HISTORY -- TERM LIMITS IN AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES -- Single-Party Dictatorships -- Personalist Regimes -- Military Regimes -- WHY ARE TERM LIMITS ADOPTED? -- HOW TERM LIMITS ARE ELIMINATED -- ENFORCEMENT OF TERM LIMITS -- CONSEQUENCES OF TERM LIMITS -- REFERENCES -- Section III -- 15: The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Malawi -- THE HISTORY OF THE DEBATE ABOUT TERM LIMITS -- Term Limits and the New Constitutional Order, 1993–95 -- The Struggle and Debate over a Third Term for Muluzi, 2001–3 -- Revisiting the Issue—The 2009 Elections -- THE REASONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND “STABILITY” OF TERM LIMITS -- CONSEQUENCES OF PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN MALAWI -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 16: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Term Limits, Elections, and Political Change in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia -- TERM LIMITS AS AN ACT OF POLITICAL COMPROMISE -- Trading Political Eligibility for Term Limits i.
n Kenya -- Trading Political Exclusion for Term Limits in Zambia -- Trading “No-Party Democracy” for Term Limits in Uganda -- Of Compromise and Commitment -- TERM LIMITS UNDER FIRE -- Chiluba and the ‘Third-Term Debate’ in Zambia -- Museveni’s U-turn in Uganda -- Moi and the Institutionalization of Term Limits in Kenya -- Explaining Institutionalization -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF TERM LIMITS IN KENYA, UGANDA, AND ZAMBIA -- The Consequences of Term Limits in Kenya -- The Consequences of Term Limits in Zambia -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 17: Senegal (1970–2016): Presidential Term Limit Reforms Never Come Alone -- HISTORY OF DEBATE ON PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS AND TERM LENGTHS -- REASONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION, ABOLITION, AND CIRCUMVENTION OF TERM LIMITS AND LENGTHS -- The 1970 Reform -- The 1976 Reform -- The 1991 Reform -- The 1998 Reform -- The 2001 Reform -- The 2008 Reform -- The 2012 Circumvention -- The 2016 Reform -- CONSEQUENCES OF OSCILLATING REFORMS OF TERM LIMITS AND LENGTHS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Legal Documents -- 18: Presidential Term Limits in Burkina Faso -- PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS OVER TIME -- WHY WERE PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS INTRODUCED, ABOLISHED, AND REINTRODUCED? -- WHAT WAS THE EFFECT OF TENSIONS OVER TERM LIMITS? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 19: The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Term Limits in Russian Politics -- THE HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL TERMS LIMITS IN RUSSIA -- FACTORS SHAPING THE OPERATION OF TERM LIMITS -- THE EFFECTS OF TERM LIMITS -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: THE SURVEY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Section IV -- 20: The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in the United States -- PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS ACROSS AMERICAN HISTORY -- DEBATES OVER TERM LIMIT RULES -- CONSEQUENCES OF TERM LIMITS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 21: Presidential Term Limits in Europe -- PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN EUROPE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ONWARDS -- DEBATES ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN EUROPE -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN EUROPE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 22: Term Limits in South Korea: Promises and Perils -- CONSTITUTIONS AND TERM-LIMIT REVISIONS PRIOR TO THE 1987 CONSTITUTION -- 1952 and 1954 Constitutional Revisions -- Two Constitutions, 1960 and 1963, and a Coup -- Constitutional Revision, 1969, and the Yushin Constitution, 1972 -- The 1980 and 1987 Constitutions -- TALKS OR PROPOSALS OF TERM-LIMIT REVISIONS SINCE THE 1987 CONSTITUTION -- Constitutional Talks in the Era of the Three Kims, 1988–2000 -- Constitutional and Term-Limit Revision Talks since 2000 -- CONSEQUENCES OF PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS -- The Term Limit and Party Politics -- Term Limits and the Economy -- Term Limits and Democracy -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 23: The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Argentina -- PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN ARGENTINA -- Juan Domingo Perón and the Constitution of 1949 -- Constitutional Amendments and Regime Instability -- Constitution.
