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Overstaying Their Welcome.(World Affairs)(term limit of government officials)
Byline: Adam B. Kushner
Critics of former president Bush's democracy-promotion agenda say he confused liberal ends (good government) with liberal means (elections). After all, leaders can use elections to perpetuate bad governments. In mature democracies, the answer has been to limit executive terms. But recent, controversial moves to dodge term limits are being taken by leaders in New York City and Colombia, which are widely seen as popular and successful models of good government.
THE IDEA: term limits are inadequate tools because they would toss out the Roosevelts with the Hoovers and constrain the democratic desire to restore a popular incumbent to office. Also, the prospect of reelection makes presidents responsive to voter demands. Waiving the rules from time to time--as Colombia may do for President Alvaro Uribe and New York did for Mayor Michael Bloomberg--strengthens democratic institutions.
THE EVIDENCE: take Uribe in Colombia and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, both popular presidents. Uribe wrangled a constitutional amendment from Congress in 2006 allowing him to serve a second ...
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- Toward a sensible implementation of term limits
- Newspaper article from: New York Amsterdam News Peter F. Vallone August 3, 1996 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Richardson, Valerie October 17, 1999 700+ words
...Limits. Support for term limits has become almost a litmus...Idaho, for example, term-limits proponents attacked Republican...lawmakers in Maine, Oregon, New York City and Nashville have...scale back or eliminate term limits, but none has succeeded...
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- Magazine article from: Campaigns & Elections Kamber, Victor December 1, 1995 700+ words
AN `ANTI' PERSPECTIVE Term limits mean giving up on democracy...the cream? Leaders of the term limits movement think that's too...Congressional Reform, and wealthy New York businessman Howard Rich who...CCR and renamed it U.S. Term Limits. These rich oligarchs see...
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