Beyond the fallacy of coup-ism
Conceptualizing Civilian Control of the Military in Emerging Democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6253725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aurel Croissant (0000-0001-9927-3241, Heidelberg University), David Kuehn (0000-0003-2593-0194, Heidelberg University), Paul Chambers (0000-0001-8593-9209), Siegfried O Wolf (Heidelberg University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 950-975 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Democratization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13510347.2010.501180 |
| OpenAlex | W1969481713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 52 |
It is consensus in the democratization literature that civilian control of the military is a necessary ingredient for democracy and democratic consolidation. However, there is considerable disagreement on what civilian control of the military exactly entails and there is a lack of solid theoretical arguments for how weak or absent civilian control affects democratic governance. Furthermore, a considerable portion of the research literature is captured by the fallacy of coup-ism, ignoring the many other forms in which military officers can constrain the authority of democratically elected political leaders to make political decisions and get them implemented. This article addresses these lacunae by providing a new conceptual framework for the analysis of civil–military relations in emerging democracies. From democracy theory it derives a definition of civilian control as a certain distribution of decision-making power between civilian leaders and military officers. Based on this definition, the authors develop a five-dimensional concept of civilian control, discuss the effects of weakly institutionalized civilian control on the quality of democracy and address the chances for democratic consolidation
Civil–military relations · Consolidation (business · Corporate governance · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Economics · Epistemology · Fallacy · Law and economics · Management · Military relations · Military theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Military History and Strategy · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 75 |
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| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 74 |