The Weight of Precedent: the Two-Term Tradition and Norm Violations in the United States Presidency

• In Event: Formal Models of Presidency and Executive Politics

Brief Overview

We demonstrate the importance of citizen beliefs, the cost of violating norms to political parties and citizens, and an incumbent's electoral prospects to maintaining an informal norm (term limits) that restrains the power of an incumbent executive.

Authors

• Collin Thomas Schumock, Yale University

• Daniel Alexander Novick Goldstein, University of Oslo