Regime Change in the Shadow of Coups

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel explores how coups affect liberalization and democratic backsliding. Coups are the most common form of irregular non-institutionalized leadership change and the most common form of unconstitutional regime change. The effect of coups are not limited to their occurrence, however. The threat of a coup coup d’état is also potent, affecting the strategic interaction of actors. The papers on this panel will explore how the relationships between the ruling elite, civil society, and the military are affected by the threat of coup. Popular mobilization, repression, and liberalization and coups are interrelated.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• It Takes a Village to Raise a Dictator: International Politics and Coup Outcomes - Clayton L. Thyne, University of Kentucky

• Challenging the Status Quo: Coups and Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes - Jesse Dillon-Savage, Trinity College Dublin; Roman-Gabriel Olar, Trinity College, Dublin

• Previous Military Rule and Democratic Survival - Nam Kyu Kim, Sungkyunkwan University

Chair

• Christian Houle Michigan State University

Discussant

• Jun Koga Sudduth University of Strathclyde