The Case for Presidential Term Limits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gideon Maltz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 128-142 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2007.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2032462890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
| References cited | 7 |
Presidential term limits have spread very widely, but the challenge today is that of enforcement. Term limits are an important instrument of democratization in electoral-authoritarian countries: this is not just because they constrain the power of individual leaders, but also because they tend to promote political party alternation, as in Croatia in 2000 and Kenya in 2002, which in turn fosters democratization. The international community can promote presidential term limits compliance through deepening the norm of term limits, using aid conditionality, addressing the incentives of incumbent leaders, and encouraging the entrenchment of term limits in constitutions
Authoritarianism · Conditionality · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Incentive · Market economy · Norm (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Term (time · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Political Leadership in Africa
Respecting and circumventing presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa
Constitutionality of the Discourse Extending the Term of Office of the President in Indonesia
The Crisis of Russian Democracy
Presidential Term Limits and the African Union
Preventing leaders' autocratic entrenchment by exponential super-majority threshold escalators
Eternity clauses in post-conflict and post-authoritarian constitution-making
Electoral persistence and the quality of public policies
Law-abiders, lame ducks, and over-stayers
Turn-taking in office
The Value of Values for Autocrats
Elite opposition and popular rejection
Scribbles from the Den. Essays on Politics and Collective Memory in Cameroon
Reelección presidencial y retroceso democrático en América Latina
Protection against autocratisation
Long live the doge? Death as a term limit on Venetian chief executives
Consolidation of the PRC’s Leadership Succession System from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping
Institutional determinants of invalid voting in post-communist Europe and Latin America
Les partis politiques de l'opposition en Afrique
With a Little Help from the Opposition? Relaxing Term Limits in the Argentine Provinces, 1983–2017
The Institutionalization of Political Power in Africa
A New Look at the Evidence
Manipulating Term Limits in Latin America
African Elections as Vehicles for Change
African Elections
Los Invencibles
Leadership Succession and the Resilience of Electoral Authoritarian Regimes
Legalistic autocrats
Africa's Lame Ducks
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America
The would-be autocrats’ toolkit
Public attitudes toward external democracy promotion in Africa
Countering autocratization
Do contravention attempts affect public support for presidential term limits
Contested, violated but persistent
Can unamendable term limits prevent presidents-for-life
Military loyalty and the failure of democratization in Africa
Changing the rules to win the game again
When Do Political Parties Protest Election Results
Presidential Term Limit Contravention
Democratization During the Third Wave
Elections and Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes
The Stakes of Losing Office, Term Limits and Democracy
Democracy and the politics of power alternation in Africa
The failure of democratisation by elections in Cambodia
State Repression and Democratic Dispensation in Uganda 1996-2016
Engineering Power
The Study of Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa
Autocratisation by Term Limits Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Presidential Term Limits and Regime Types
The Institutionalisation of Power Revisited
Legal Loopholes and the Politics of Executive Term Limits
Chief or Big-Man Politics in Post-War Sierra Leone
| Unique citing works | 53 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,79 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |