How to prevent coups d'état : counterbalancing and regime survival / / Erica De Bruin [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: De Bruin Erica <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource)
• Disciplina: 327.112
• Soggetto topico: Coups d'état - Prevention; Civil war - Prevention; Political leadership; Civil-military relations
• Classificazione: MD 8600
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2020.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Preventing Coups d'etat -- The Logic of Counterbalancing -- Counterbalancing and Coup Failure -- How Counterbalancing Works: Testing the Causal Mechanisms -- An Effective Deterrent? Counterbalancing and Coup Attempts -- Challenges to Building Coercive Institutions -- How Coups d'etat Escalate to Civil War -- Conclusion: Coercive Institutions and Regime Survival.
• Sommario/riassunto: When rulers use presidential guards, militarized police, and militia to counterbalance the regular military, efforts to oust them from power via coups d'état are less likely to succeed. Even as counterbalancing helps to prevent successful interventions, however, the resentment that it generates within the regular military can provoke new coup attempts. And because counterbalancing changes how soldiers and police perceive the costs and benefits of a successful overthrow, it can create incentives for protracted fighting that result in the escalation of a coup into full-blown civil war. Drawing on an original dataset of state security forces in 110 countries over a span of fifty years, as well as case studies of coup attempts in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, the book sheds light on how counterbalancing affects regime survival.
• Titolo autorizzato: How to prevent coups d'état
• ISBN: 1-5017-5192-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795650403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell scholarship online.