Party Institutionalization and the Removal of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America

An explanation of the recent wave of constitutional changes in favor of more permissive reelection rules in Latin America is presented based on a principal-agent model of intraparty relations within the presidential party. The theoretical model suggests causal mechanisms through which institutionali...

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Autor principal:	KOUBA,KAREL
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2016
Materias:	Presidential reelection party institutionalization term limits comparative politics Latin America
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-090X20160002000022016-10-03Party Institutionalization and the Removal of Presidential Term Limits in Latin AmericaKOUBA,KAREL Presidential reelection party institutionalization term limits comparative politics Latin America An explanation of the recent wave of constitutional changes in favor of more permissive reelection rules in Latin America is presented based on a principal-agent model of intraparty relations within the presidential party. The theoretical model suggests causal mechanisms through which institutionalized presidential parties constrain the decision to scrap term limits. The theoretical implications are tested using both quantitative and qualitative evidence. Results from logistic regression suggest that the likelihood of removing term limits in Latin American countries (1990-2013) significantly declines with the level of presidential party institutionalization. Case study evidence illustrates the operation of the theoretically-derived causal mechanisms.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.36 n.2 20162016-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2016000200002en10.4067/S0718-090X2016000200002
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description	An explanation of the recent wave of constitutional changes in favor of more permissive reelection rules in Latin America is presented based on a principal-agent model of intraparty relations within the presidential party. The theoretical model suggests causal mechanisms through which institutionalized presidential parties constrain the decision to scrap term limits. The theoretical implications are tested using both quantitative and qualitative evidence. Results from logistic regression suggest that the likelihood of removing term limits in Latin American countries (1990-2013) significantly declines with the level of presidential party institutionalization. Case study evidence illustrates the operation of the theoretically-derived causal mechanisms.
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title	Party Institutionalization and the Removal of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America
title_short	Party Institutionalization and the Removal of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America
title_full	Party Institutionalization and the Removal of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America
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title_full_unstemmed	Party Institutionalization and the Removal of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America
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publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política
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Party Institutionalization and the Removal of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America

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