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The Law and Politics of Presidential Term Limit Evasion

Mila Versteeg; Timothy Horley; Anne Meng; Mauricio Guim; Marilyn Guirguis · Columbia Law Review 120(1), 173–248 · 2020

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Author: Mila Versteeg; Timothy Horley; Anne Meng; Mauricio Guim; Marilyn Guirguis
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedA survey of presidential term-limit evasion since 2000, covering 234 incumbents in 106 countries, found that roughly a third of incumbents reaching the end of their term tried to stay on, almost always by formally legal means, and that most failed attempts were stopped by popular resistance rather than by courts.