A Probabilistic Approach to the Causes of Coups d'Etat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6229152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary H T O''Kane, Rosemary H T O’kane (corresponding author), Rosemary H T O'Kane |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 287-308 |
| Publication date | 1981-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123400002659 |
| OpenAlex | W2127127081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 20 |
In the last ten years on my individual reckoning’, observes S. E. Finer, ‘there have been seventy-three coups in forty-six countries’. ‘Coups’, Gurr comments, ‘can alter political processes and social institutions as drastically as any classic revolutions’. Yet the incidence and importance of coups are hardly reflected in the sparse literature proposing generalizations about their causes. Certainly, many case studies of individual coups have been undertaken, but the choice of the country has usually been decided by availability of data rather than its significance for a general theory. Given that coups have occurred all over the world, they clearly are a general phenomenon. Existing general explanations for them, however, are open to criticism. These suggest that essentially there is room for a theory which is about coups in particular rather than about wider forms of political instability, or about the narrower, military, coup; which is capable of falsification, avoiding inherently untestable hypotheses or concepts that are defined so loosely as to invite accusations of tautology; and which is, of course, able to withstand appropriate empirical examination
Criticism · Economics · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Probabilistic logic · Sociology · Tautology (logic · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Russia and Soviet political economy
The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
Citizens, Autocrats, and Plotters
The Structural Sources of Military Coups in Postcolonial Africa, 1957-1984
Legitimacy and Military Intervention in a Democracy
The politics of authoritarian rule
US Military Deployments and the Risk of Coup d’État
Sourcing and Bias in the Study of Coups
Forum
Does Coup-Proofing Work? Political–Military Relations in Authoritarian Regimes amid the Arab Uprisings
The harsh face of the empire by invitation
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance
Politics in the hot zone
The hazard rate of political regimes
Dictators, development, and the virtue of political instability
When to expect a coup d’état? An extreme bounds analysis of coup determinants
Authoritarian Responses to Foreign Pressure
How a Failed Coup D’Etat Can Shape the Trajectory of a State
Poverty, the Coup Trap, and the Seizure of Executive Power
A Proportional Hazard Model of Leadership Duration
Economic Chaos and the Fragility of Democratic Transition in Former Communist Regimes
Investing in Violence
Group strength, accountability and growth under dictatorship
Determinants of Coup d’État Events 1970—90
The Ladder of Abstraction
Revisiting Economic Shocks and Coups
The Ethnic Army and the State
Dealing with Tyranny
How to Keep Officers in the Barracks
Towards an Examination of the General Causes of Coups d'Etat
Explaining military coups and impeachments in Latin America
What does the population in Niger think about a military government
The Sustainability of Political Democracy
Breaking Out of the Coup Trap
Coup d’État and Democracy
Civil-Military Relations
Power Sharing and Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes
Forecasting African coups d' etat
Coups d'État in Africa
Explaining Military Coups D'Etat
Arms Transfers and Coups d'État
Time and Power in Africa
Explaining African Coups d'Etat
Explaining African Military Coups d'Etat, 1960-1982
The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s
Support for Coups in the Americas
Conscription and Democracy
Studying Rare Events Through Qualitative Case Studies
Political development and social change
Coups and army rule in Africa
Introduction to multivariate analysis for the social sciences.
The Military in the Political Development of New Nations
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
National Political Development
The Military in the Political Development of New Nations
United States Military Assistance
National Political Development
Psychological Factors in Civil Violence
Toward Explaining Military Intervention in Latin American Politics
Some Problems in Generalizing Aggregate Associations
On the Etiology of Internal Wars
Political Development and Socioeconomic Development
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,09 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |