Autocratisation by Term Limits Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Besides the introduction of multi-party elections, the sub-Saharan wave of democratic reforms of the 1990s encompassed the introduction of limits to the number of terms that a chief executive can serve. Executive term limits (ETLs) are key for democracy to advance in a continent with a legacy of per...

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Main Author: Andrea Cassani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-12-01
Series:Africa Spectrum
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/0002039720964218