Dr. Charlotte Heyl

This book generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing together the scholarship on Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, providing context-bound intraregional research as well as long-term perspectives for the study of term-limit change. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

The term limits of presidents as a crucial institutional feature to safeguard democracy have often been contested by incumbents. The authors of this article argue that bringing together knowledge on Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa provides new empirical and theoretical insights.

In this article the authors take a longitudinal view on presidential-term-limit reforms in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa since the third wave of democratization. Many countries (re)introduced the measure as a democratic safeguard against abuse of power; since then, it has been repeatedly challenged.

The term limits of presidents as a crucial institutional feature to safeguard democracy have often been contested by incumbents. The authors of this special issue argue that bringing together knowledge on Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa provides new empirical and theoretical insights.

Contested, Violated, but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, Online event, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Charlotte Heyl (Organiser), Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Organiser)

Contested, Violated, but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, Online event, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Charlotte Heyl (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Speaker)