The Military and Regime Personalization: Professionalism and Officers’ Response to Autocratic Cooptation

• In Event: Bureaucratic Process Dynamics

Brief Overview

Drawing on the Turkish and Russian cases and a cross-national dataset, this paper reveals that an army with prior coup experience and a higher degree of institutionalization and professionalism is less susceptible to autocratic cooptation.

Author

• Ozgur Ozkan, Harvard Kennedy School