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Among democracies, over 80 percent saw the incumbent party lose support compared to the last election. [132] This is the first time this has ever happened since 1905 (when data was first recorded) and the first time in the history of democracy , as universal suffrage began in 1894.
Country Head of state/government Other Title Maximum number of terms Office Maximum number of terms Algeria President: Two 5-year terms, since 2016 constitution reform
A 2023 study analyzed the long-term effects of democracy on economic prosperity using new data on GDP per capita and democracy for a dataset between 1789 and 2019. The results indicate that democracy substantially increases economic development. [244]
In ancient Athenian democracy, many officeholders were limited to a single term. Council members were allowed a maximum of two terms. The position of Strategos could be held for an indefinite number of terms. [2] In the Roman Republic, a law was passed imposing a limit of a single term on the office of censor.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, there were considerable political rivalries among the empires of the European continent, leading to the African continent being partitioned without wars between European nations. As late as the 1870s, Europeans controlled approximately 10% of the African continent, with all their territories located near ...
Prior to the American Revolution in what is now the United States—and before the coming of age of the "crowned republics" of constitutional monarchies in the United Kingdom and other European countries—democracy and republic were "used more or less interchangeably", [6] and the concepts associated with representative democracy and hence ...
Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy (1996) Morton, F. L. "Sexual Equality and the Family in Tocqueville's Democracy in America," Canadian Journal of Political Science (1984) 17#2 pp. 309–324 in JSTOR; Schleifer, James T. The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America (U of Chicago Press, 2012) Schneck, Stephen.
In the context of the politics of the United States, term limits restrict the number of terms of office an officeholder may serve. At the federal level, the president of the United States can serve a maximum of two four-year terms, with this being limited by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution that came into force on February 27, 1951.