Gambits for Power: Causal Determinants of Military Coups

• In Event: Protest and Mobilization

Brief Overview

Our research disaggregates coups into discrete groups: coups by junior officers, and coups by elite officers. We find that coups conducted by these groups have different characteristics and outcomes that non-disaggregated analyses fail to capture.

Authors

• Holger Albrecht, University of Alabama

• Austin Schutz, University of Alabama

• Erin K. Little, The University of Alabama