The Military's Impact on Democratic Development: Midwives or Gravediggers of Democracy?

ISBN-13: 9781138485594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 102 str.

David Kuehn

Opis

This volume addresses the military’s potential political role as the midwife for democratic transitions, or the gravedigger of democratic rule. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Democratization.

 

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.