Presidents’ Personality Traits and Relaxing Term Limits: Evidence from Latin America, 1945-2012

• In Event: Executives and Legislatures in Latin America: The Power Game

Brief Overview

I show that presidents who were risk-taking and dominant tended to be more likely to try to relax their term limits in Latin America between 1945 and 2012.

Author

• Ignacio Arana, Carnegie Mellon University