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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.

Coups d'état --- Democratization --- History. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Coup d'états --- Coups (Coups d'état) --- Government, Resistance to --- History --- Revolutions

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"An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.

Coups d'état --- Military government --- Military rule --- Public administration --- Civil-military relations --- Military occupation --- Coup d'états --- Coups (Coups d'état) --- Government, Resistance to --- History --- Political science --- Revolutions --- Nigeria --- Politics and government --- Geschichte 1966-1976

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This thoughtful and engaging book offers the first extended analysis of coups, a central factor shaping world history and politics. Ivan Perkins introduces a new theory to explain why a military coup or revolution is such an unthinkable prospect in advanced democracies. Focusing especially on the first three coup-free states-the Venetian Republic, Great Britain, and the United States-the book traces the evolutionary origins of political violence and the historical rise of republican government. Perkins concludes with a new explanation for the "d

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Coups d'état --- Revolutions --- #SBIB:324H40 --- #SBIB:324H70 --- #SBIB:324H75 --- 323.27 --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- 323.27 Oproeren. Revolutie. Revolutionaire bewegingen. Staatsgreep --- Oproeren. Revolutie. Revolutionaire bewegingen. Staatsgreep --- Coup d'états --- Coups (Coups d'état) --- Politieke structuren: algemeen --- Politieke verandering: algemeen --- Politieke verandering: revolutie --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Polemology

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Revolutions --- Coups d'etat --- Government, Resistance to --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Coup d'états --- Coups (Coups d'état) --- History --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- War --- Mexico --- Politics and government --- Coups d'état --- Political resistance