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Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits: New Comparative Politics

Autor Alexander Baturo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 feb 2014
A national constitution or other statute typically specifies restrictions on executive power, often including a limit to the number of terms the chief executive may hold office. In recent decades, however, some presidents of newly established democracies have extended their tenure by various semilegal means, thereby raising the specter—and in some cases creating the reality—of dictatorship.
Alexander Baturo tracks adherence to and defiance of presidential term limits in all types of regimes (not only democratic regimes) around the world since 1960. Drawing on original data collection and fieldwork to investigate the factors that encourage playing by or manipulating the rules, he asks what is at stake for the chief executive if he relinquishes office. Baturo finds that the income-generating capacity of political office in states where rent-seeking is prevalent, as well as concerns over future immunity and status, determines whether or not an executive attempts to retain power beyond the mandated period. Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits will appeal to scholars of democratization and executive power and also to political theorists.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780472119318
ISBN-10: 0472119311
Pagini: 350
Ilustrații: 10 figures, 22 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria New Comparative Politics


Notă biografică

Alexander Baturo is Lecturer in International Relations at Dublin City University and a member of the Centre for International Studies.

Recenzii

“A significant contribution to our understanding of how presidentialism operates and its effects on democratic survival and consolidation.”
 —Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University

Winner of the The Brian Farrell book prize

Descriere

Exploring the factors that lead some presidents to hold on to power beyond their term limits