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As in Britain, other democratic states around the world face the question of what comes next for a former government leader — a prime minister or a president — obliged to leave office because they have lost an election, or come to the end of their constitutionally-fixed term, or fallen ill, or lost the backing of their party, or (more rarely) one who chooses to call it a day and voluntarily quits. Just as in Britain, there is no fixed or predetermined role — they have to work it out for themselves, and what they do depends very much on personal choices and on circumstances.
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Richard Norton Smith and Timothy Walch (eds), Farewell to the Chief: Former Presidents in American Public Life (Worland, Wyoming: High Plains Publishing, 1990), p. xi
Irina Belenky, ‘The Making of the Ex-Presidents, 1797–1993: Six Recurrent Models’, Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, 1999, pp. 150–65.
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone (London: Macmillan, 1995), p. 625
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Theakston, K. (2010). Comparative Perspectives. In: After Number 10. Understanding Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281387_10
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