The Uganda Coup-Class Action by the Military
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4972040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael F Lofchie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-35 |
| Publication date | 1972-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00022072 |
| OpenAlex | W2143064323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 2 |
There will undoubtedly be many interpretations of the Uganda coup. The purpose of this article is merely to suggest one and, on the basis of available, though admittedly incomplete evidence, to outline a case for its plausibility. The central argument is as follows. The Uganda army can be best understood as a kind of economic class, an élite stratum with a set of economic interests to protect. The coup of January 1971 was the army's political response to an increasingly socialist régime whose equalitarian domestic policies posed more and more of a threat to the military's economic privileges
Action (physics · Argument (complex analysis · Class (philosophy · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Military rule · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Stratum · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Engineering · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2022 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |