The Politics of Presidential Term Limits

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1. Presidential Term Limits • Alexander Baturo and Robert Elgie
Section I
	2. Theorizing Presidential Rotation • Peter Stone
	3. One Size Does Not Fit All: The Provision and Interpretation of Presidential Term Limits • Tom Ginsburg and Zachary Elkins
	4. Term Limits and the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine: Lessons from Latin America • David Landau, Yaniv Roznai, and Rosalind Dixon
	5. Continuismo in Comparison: Avoidance, Extension, and Removal of Presidential Term Limits • Alexander Baturo
Section II
	6. Presidential Term Limits in Latin America: c.1820–1985 • Leiv Marsteintredet
	7. Presidential Term Limits as a Credible-Commitment Mechanism: The Case of Brazil’s Military Regime • Octavio Amorim Neto and Igor P. Acácio
	8. The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico • Joseph L. Klesner
	9. Presidential Term Limits in Nicaragua • David Close
	10. The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Tunisia • Alessandra Bonci and Francesco Cavatorta
	11. Presidential Term Limits in Togo: Electoral Accountability Postponed • John R. Heilbrunn
	12. Presidential Terms in Kazakhstan: Less is More? • Dmitry Nurumov and Vasil Vashchanka
	13. China: Limiting and Regularizing Top Political Power • Zhengxu Wang and Anastas Vangeli
	14. Term Limits and Succession in Dictatorships • Natasha Ezrow
Section III
	15. The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Malawi • Peter VonDoepp
	16. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Term Limits, Elections, and Political Change in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia • Nic Cheeseman
	17. Senegal (1970–2016): Presidential Term Limit Reforms Never Come Alone • Charlotte Heyl
	18. Presidential Term Limits in Burkina Faso • Sophia Moestrup
	19. The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Term Limits in Russian Politics • Paul Chaisty
Section IV
	20. The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in the United States • Michael J. Korzi
	21. Presidential Term Limits in Europe • Robert Elgie
	22. Term Limits in South Korea: Promises and Perils • Fiona Yap
	23. The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Argentina • Mariana Llanos
	24. The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras • Juan Muñoz-Portillo and Ilka Treminio
	25. The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America: From Re-democratization to Today • José Antonio Cheibub and Alejandro Medina
	26. Presidential Term Limits in Bolivia • David Doyle
Section V
	27. Presidential Term Limits and the International Community • Christina Murray, Eric Alston, and Micha Wiebusch
	28. Effects of Presidential Term Limits • Akisato Suzuki
	29. What Have We Learned about Presidential Term Limits? • Alexander Baturo and Robert Elgie
Index