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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- The Democratic Coup d'État -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- PART ONE FROM SOLDIERS TO POLITICIANS -- 1. Love Ballads, Carnations, and Coups -- 2. The Romance of Democratic Transitions -- 3. In the Land of the Blind -- 4. Hogan's Heroes -- 5. A Different Kind of Stroke -- PART TWO BRUTUS AND CASSIUS -- 6. Friends with Benefits -- 7. With Friends Like These -- 8. Musical Chairs -- 9. The Glorious Coup -- PART THREE PRAETORIANS AND GUARDIANS -- 10. An Army of Civilians -- 11. Meritocracy and Nepotism -- 12. The Enemy Within -- 13. Foreign Affairs -- PART FOUR AN ALLIANCE OF CONVENIENCE -- 14. Competition and Power -- 15. Freedom and Order -- PART FIVE MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS -- 16. A New Order -- 17. Golden Parachutes -- 18. Between Scylla and Charybdis -- PART SIX SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? -- 19. The Retreat -- 20. The Broken Promise -- PART SEVEN HOW THIS ENDS -- 21. The Awakening -- 22. Hollow Hope -- 23. Horror Vacui -- 24. Synergy -- 25. Cincinnatus -- Acknowledgments -- Continue the Conversation -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
The term 'coup d'état', French for stroke of the state, brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the same, and present the same threats to democracy. It's a powerful, concise, and self-reinforcing idea. It's also wrong. 'The Democratic Coup d'État' advances a simple yet controversial argument: Sometimes a democracy is established through a military coup. The work covers events from the Athenian Navy's stance in 411 BC against a tyrannical home government to coups in the American colonies that ousted corrupt British governors and to twentieth-century coups that toppled dictators and established democracy in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Coups d'état -- History
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Democratization -- History
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Coups d'état
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Democratization
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190626051 |
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0190626054 |
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