German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Kurzer Lebenslauf

03/2019 - 04/2021: Sprecherin des Forschungsteams „Demokratische Institutionen“ im FSP 1 „Politische Verantwortlichkeit und Partizipation“
Seit 2017: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am GIGA Institut für Afrika-Studien im Projekt “The (In)stability of Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America: Assessing the Impact of Tenure-Rule Reforms on the Political Regime”
2015 - 2016: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am GIGA Institut für Afrika-Studien im Projekt “The Local Arena of Power Sharing: Patterns of Adaptation or Continued Disorder”
2014 - 2015: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Internationale Beziehungen und Entwicklungspolitik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
2011 - 2015: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am GIGA Institut für Afrika-Studien im Projekt " Judicial (In)dependence in New Democracies"
2006 - 2010: Praktika bei GTZ, Misereor/Ökumenisches Netz Zentralafrika und Partnerschaft Rheinland-Pfalz-Ruanda
Studium: Promotion an der Universität Duisburg-Essen „The Contribution of Constitutional Courts to the Democratic Quality of Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Case Study of Madagascar and Senegal“, Postgraduierten-Programm für Nachwuchskräfte in der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Magister in Politikwissenschaft, Japanologie und Geographie an der Universität Trier

Aktuelle Forschung

Demokratisierungsprozesse
Politische Institutionen
Verfassungsgerichte
Wahlen

Länder und Regionen

Madagaskar
Senegal

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Politische Verantwortlichkeit und Partizipation

Mitgliedschaften

Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Bertelsmann Stiftung, BTI Regional Coordinator West and Central Africa, seit 2018

Dissertation

The Contribution of Constitutional Courts to the Democratic Quality of Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Case Study of Madagascar and Senegal

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

[email protected]

Sammelband | Routledge | 2023

Contested, Violated but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

This book generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing together the scholarship on Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, providing context-bound intraregional research as well as long-term perspectives for the study of term-limit change. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow / Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Democratization | 2022

Contested, Violated but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: Introduction to Special Issue

Die Begrenzung der Amtszeit von Präsidenten als institutionelles Mittel zur Sicherung der Demokratie wurde von Amtsinhabern immer wieder angefochten. Die Autorinnen dieses Artikels argumentieren, dass das Zusammenführen von Wissen über Lateinamerika und Subsahara-Afrika neue empirische und theoretische Erkenntnisse liefert.

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow / Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Democratization | 2022

Sequences of Presidential-Term-Limit Reforms: Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa

In diesem Artikel werfen die Autor:innen einen Blick auf die Reformen der Amtszeitbeschränkungen für Präsidenten in Lateinamerika und Subsahara-Afrika. Viele Länder haben die Maßnahme als demokratischen Schutz vor Machtmissbrauch (wieder) eingeführt; seitdem wurde sie immer wieder in Frage gestellt.

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow / Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

Democratization | Taylor and Francis | 2022

Special Issue: Contested, Violated but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

The term limits of presidents as a crucial institutional feature to safeguard democracy have often been contested by incumbents. The authors of this special issue argue that bringing together knowledge on Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa provides new empirical and theoretical insights.

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow / Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Africa Spectrum | 02.2021

The Study of Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons on Democratisation and Autocratisation

Studien über Amtszeitbeschränkungen in Afrika haben sich in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stark vermehrt. Diese Einleitung zum Sonderheft skizziert, wie Amtszeitbeschränkungen als Teil der institutionellen Landschaft in autoritären Regimen theoretisiert werden können.

Dr. Julia Grauvogel

Senior Research Fellow / Sprecherin Forschungsteam

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Forschungsprojekt | 01.06.2020 - 28.02.2021

Population Growth and Security in Africa

As recent projections estimate, population growth will remain a challenge throughout Africa, although growth rates have slowed over recent decades. Africa’s population will continue to grow strongly over the next few decades, especially in sub-regions such as the Sahel. Many observers and practitioners have started to warn that population growth may escalate distributional conflicts and could increase related challenges such as uncontrolled migration.
FFO, 2020-2021

Forschungsprojekt | 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2021

Presidents Who Die Too Soon and Presidents Who Live Too Long. Term Limits and Succession in Presidential and Semi-Presidential Regimes

This cooperation project researches two important rules defining the presidential mandates, i.e. presidential term limits and succession rules, and their intersection in the presidential regimes of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
DAAD/PPP, 2019-2021

Forschungsprojekt | 01.08.2017 - 31.07.2021

The (In)stability of Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America: Assessing the Impact of Tenure-Rule Reforms on the Political Regime

Many countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa (re-)introduced term limits during the third wave of democratization as a democratic safeguard against personal rule and power abuses. Since then, term limits have been contested by a plethora of reform attempts. In this project, we take a longitudinal view on these sometimes recurrent reforms and analyse their repercussions for institutionalization, democratization and autocratization.
DFG, 2017-2021

Forschungsprojekt | 01.01.2011 - 31.12.2016

Judicial (In)dependence in New Democracies. Courts, Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

The study of judicial independence shows the interaction among the three branches of government and concentrates, especially, on the ways in which the two elected branches – the executive and the legislature – interfere with the judicial branch. The project stresses the difficult balance between judicial independence and judicial accountability, a classical topic in political science, and analyses it in new democracies of the developing world.
Leibniz Association, 2011-2016

Bayern 2, radioWelt | Interview | 20.08.2020

Die Lage nach dem Putschversuch in Mali

change - Das Magazin der Bertelsmann Stiftung | Kommentar / Gastbeitrag | 16.01.2020

Gambia: Demokratie, die Zweite

Deutsche Welle | Weitere | 26.11.2018

Is Africa's democracy dying?

GIGA Event | 12.10.2020 - 13.10.2020

Contested, Violated, but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Contested, Violated, but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, Online event, Hamburg Organisation: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Charlotte Heyl (Organisator:in), Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Organisator:in)

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow / Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

GIGA Event | 12.10.2020 - 13.10.2020

Presidential Term Limit Reform Attempts: A Sequence Analysis

Contested, Violated, but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, Online event, Hamburg Organisation: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Charlotte Heyl (Vortragende:r), Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Vortragende:r)

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Associate

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow / Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

GIGA Talk | 23.01.2020

Stopping the President: Why Conflicts Over Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America Are so Explosive

Stopping the President: Why Conflicts Over Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America Are so Explosive, GIGA Berlin, Berlin Organisation: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Charlotte Heyl (Panelbeitragende:r), Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Panelbeitragende:r), Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann (Moderator:in), Dr. Peter Woeste (Diskutant:in), Ottmar von Holtz (Diskutant:in)

Dr. Charlotte Heyl

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann

Dr. Peter Woeste

Ottmar von Holtz

Lehre | Universität Duisburg-Essen | 2014

Demokratie und Demokratieförderung in Afrika

Universität Duisburg-Essen Duisburg Deutschland

Lehre | Universität Duisburg-Essen | 2014

Einführung in die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Konfliktdynamiken in Afrika

Universität Duisburg-Essen Duisburg Deutschland

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Kurzer Lebenslauf

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Dissertation

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Publikationen

Contested, Violated but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Contested, Violated but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: Introduction to Special Issue

Sequences of Presidential-Term-Limit Reforms: Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa

Special Issue: Contested, Violated but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

The Study of Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons on Democratisation and Autocratisation

Forschungsprojekte

Population Growth and Security in Africa

Presidents Who Die Too Soon and Presidents Who Live Too Long. Term Limits and Succession in Presidential and Semi-Presidential Regimes

The (In)stability of Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America: Assessing the Impact of Tenure-Rule Reforms on the Political Regime

Judicial (In)dependence in New Democracies. Courts, Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Medienbeiträge

Die Lage nach dem Putschversuch in Mali

Gambia: Demokratie, die Zweite

Is Africa's democracy dying?

Vorträge

Contested, Violated, but Persistent: Presidential Term Limits in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Presidential Term Limit Reform Attempts: A Sequence Analysis

Stopping the President: Why Conflicts Over Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America Are so Explosive

Lehre

Demokratie und Demokratieförderung in Afrika

Einführung in die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Konfliktdynamiken in Afrika

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Soziale Medien