Democratic leaders accept constitutional limits and autonomous state organs

Evidence

Jackson and Rosberg note the ways personal rulers dominate the state apparatus. By contrast, the balance of power between the democratic statesperson and other organs of the state is qualitatively different. Here the statesperson’s authority is constitutionally limited, and other organs of the state have greater autonomy, which the political leader honors and respects even when he or she greatly disagrees with them. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 108

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-Pinochet democratic transition expanded, not limited, judicial constitutional power. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 373; Democracies install baseline rights even where capacity is low and violence high — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1303; India combines high governmental capacity with genuinely democratic contested elections — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 405