Personal Rule and Presidential Term Limits in Africa
Author : Boniface Madalitso Dulani
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781124860251
Author : Boniface Madalitso Dulani
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781124860251
Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1107148243
Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.
Author : Jack R. Mangala
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030408108
This book takes stock of the debate surrounding the institution of presidential term limits in Africa, against the backdrop of global trends toward authoritarianism and the rise of strong men. Widely adopted three decades ago, term limits for the office of the president are now being challenged by many African leaders. The power alternation debate in Africa raises important questions concerning the future of democracy and development on the continent. Using a case study approach, this book explores in detail six situations in which leaders have either succeeded or failed in altering term limits. It thoroughly dissects the arguments, tactics and strategies on both sides of the issue, and draws key lessons for strengthening constitutionalism in Africa.
Author : Giovanni Carbone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108423736
An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.
Author : Alexander Baturo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192574353
Presidential term limits restrict the maximum length of time that presidents can serve in office. They stipulate the length of term the presidents can serve between elections and the number of terms that presidents are permitted to serve. While comparative scholarship has long studied important institutions such presidentialism vs. parliamentarism and the effects of different electoral systems, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the role and effects of presidential term limits. Yet presidential term limits and term lengths are one of the most fundamental institutions of democracy. By ensuring compulsory rotation in office, they are at the heart of a democratic dilemma. What is the appropriate trade-off between allowing the unrestricted selection of candidates at presidential elections vs. restricting selection procedures to prevent the possibility of dictatorial takeover by presidents who are unwilling to step down? In the context of a long and on-going history of changes to presidential term limits and the many and varied ways in which term limits have been both applied and avoided, this book explains the factors behind the introduction, stability, abolition, and avoidance of presidential term limits, as well as the consequences of changes to presidential term limits, and it does so in the context of non-democracies, third-wave countries, and consolidated democracies. It includes comparative, theoretical, and practitioner-oriented chapters, as well as detailed country case studies of presidential term limits across the world and over time.
Author : Robert H. Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520041851
Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1316239489
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally, the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and violence.
Author : Alexander Baturo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472119311
Exploring the factors that lead some presidents to hold on to power beyond their term limits
Author : Tom Ginsburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107047668
This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.
Author : Jaimie Bleck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108680623
Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential elections were held in all but a handful of the region's countries. This book is the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the key issues, actors, and trends in these elections over the last quarter century. The book asks: what motivates African citizens to vote? What issues do candidates campaign on? How has the turn to regular elections promoted greater democracy? Has regular electoral competition made a difference for the welfare of citizens? The authors argue that regular elections have both caused significant changes in African politics and been influenced in turn by a rapidly changing continent - even if few of the political systems that now convene elections can be considered democratic, and even if many old features of African politics persist.