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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Term limits"”.
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Presidential Term Limits: Political and economic effects of reelection in Latin America (1990-2010)
The subject of this dissertation is presidential term limits in Latin America (1990 - 2010). In contemporary presidential democracies there is a wide variation in how many times a president can run for reelection. In some countries presidents can be reelected for an unlimited number of terms; …
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Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior: Term Limits and Executive Action In the United States, Brazil, and Argentina
… they succumb to what I call in this research, Terminal Logic Behavior (TLB). I hypothesize that an executive term structure that sets a fixed number of allowable terms generates a policy continuity problem. More precisely, a term structure that bans reelection causes presidents to be …
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Extension of presidential term limits and it’s consequences for political leadership in Zambia: an analysis of public perceptions in Lusaka district.
… was to establish the extension of presidential term limits and its consequences for political leadership in Zambia’s Lusaka district. The objectives of the study were to investigate the root cause of extension of presidential term limits in Zambia’s political space since 1964, to establish the …
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Political elites and development
… Chapter 2, I study whether the introduction of term limits in 1987 by the Philippine Constitution was effective at breaking the dynastic pattern in Philippine politics documented in chapter 1. In particular, I explore the potential countervailing effects created by dynasties in response to the …
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Do Leaders Matter? How Personal Characteristics and Experiences Shape Electoral Violence
… and those that have manipulated presidential term limits are more likely than their peers to resort to electoral violence and (2) leaders who had their university education in Western countries are less likely to employ electoral violence. The empirical results suggest that leaders from rebel …
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Do Leaders Matter? How Personal Characteristics and Experiences Shape Electoral Violence
… and those that have manipulated presidential term limits are more likely than their peers to resort to electoral violence and (2) leaders who had their university education in Western countries are less likely to employ electoral violence. The empirical results suggest that leaders from rebel …
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Essays in Political Economy
… by the institutional rules which thus partly determines those choices. The three chapters presented here consider particular cases of this interdependence between individual political actors and political institutions. Chapter 1 analyzes how the effective super-majority in the US Senate along …
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The New Order Has Arrived: Dutch Morial, Reform, and the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, 1980-1981
… Sewerage and Water Board which included reduced term limits, an affirmative action policy, and a Minority Business Enterprise "set-aside" program despite opposition from a faction of white elite board members. These reforms reveal Morial's desire to confront social inequities in a …
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Essays in dynamic political economy
… policy. The third essay studies the impact of term limits on elections where biased candidates compete through ability investments and platform choice. Good politicians facing weak competition extract policy rents, which lowers welfare. Moreover, incumbents exacerbate rent extraction by …
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The Politicization of the American Judiciary: Practical and Theoretical Consequences of a Partisan Supreme Court
… Network, has effectively employed a long-term strategy to engineer a Supreme Court that propagates conservative legal ideology. The organizational structure of the Federalist Society finds, recruits, and retain members who will wield the organizational strategies of the organizations to …
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Essays in political accountability
… is composed by three independent essays on the limits of political accountability. In the first essay I analyze an extremely stylized model of political agency with two dimensional outcomes. I show that the non-contractible nature of rewards to the agent (the politician) is especially taxing …
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Essays in health and public policy
… The third and last essay investigates whether term-limits affect the performance elected politicians in terms of the quality of local health care services and schools provided. Connecting all three essays is the fact that they all relate to Brazil and analyze different factors that influence …
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Three essays on local government performance and political institutions in Colombia
… effects of executive support in legislatures, term limits, and perceptions of performance and approval as determinants of different measures of local government performance. Colombia, one of the oldest democracies in Latin America, established political and fiscal autonomy for municipal …
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The Alternation Fallacy: Turnover without Transformation in Zambia (1991-2015)
… finds that succession contests, triggered by term limits or the deaths of sitting presidents, are the primary mechanism which repeatedly weakens dominant parties. The outcomes of such intra-party conflicts have far-reaching consequences for the political party system by giving rise to new …
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Legislative Oversight Processes in U.S. States
… conflict, partisanship, and legislative term-limits. This research confirms and extends those ideas, reaching the conclusion that oversight in states is a deeply political action. A central contribution of this work is a consideration of how the oversight process in states operates on the …
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A systems framework and modeling approach to predict and manage the mental health effects of a military conflict
… outcome metrics often address direct, short-term effects, so the impact on long-term prevalence is unclear. The PTSD burden involves a diverse set of actors across domains who independently make decisions based on incomplete information. Systems analysis can indicate how these local aspects …
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Three Essays in Law and Economics: Consequences and Formation of Legal Rules in Other Markets
… to the jail-crowding environment, leveraging term limits imposed on local county elected officials.</p> <p>The first chapter examines the use and impact of peremptory challenges against judges in the California courts. Under California law, a judge cannot preside in a case when the judge is …
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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
… of female business independence must also be determined. To achieve this it focusses on the often underappreciated role that debtors’ prisons played in the eighteenth-century economy. Bankruptcy, traditionally the mechanism used to examine failure and insolvency, was artificially restricted …