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Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion

International Political Science Review

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Abstract

International Political Science Review, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 228-247, March 2026.
This study examines how chamber-level voting rules influence compliance with presidential term limits in third-wave democratizers. Using a novel dataset on constitutional amendment voting rules, we analyze how joint voting and split voting shape leaders’ ...