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The Military’s Impact on Democratic Development: Midwives or gravediggers of democracy? book cover

1st Edition

The Military’s Impact on Democratic Development Midwives or gravediggers of democracy?

Edited By David Kuehn Copyright 2018
116 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge
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Despite the decline in the number of military coups since the 1960s and 1970s, Militaries continue to be crucial political actors in many world regions. Their impact on the democratic development of nations, however, has been mixed. On the one hand, coups against democratically elected leaders in Mali (2012), Egypt (2013), and Thailand (2014) have spelled doom for these countries’ nascent... Read more

Introduction: Midwives or gravediggers of democracy? The military’s impact on democratic development

David Kuehn

1. Military loyalty and the failure of democratization in Africa: how ethnic armies shape the capacity of presidents to defy term limits

Kristen A. Harkness

2. Economic interdependence and post-coup democratization

Mwita Chacha and Jonathan Powell

3. Explaining military coups and impeachments in Latin America

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and John Polga-Hecimovich

4. Conditions of military contestation in populist Latin America

David Kuehn and Harold Trinkunas

Biography

David Kuehn is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, Germany. His main research interests include civil–military relations, democratization, authoritarianism and social science methodology.

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