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The Military's Impact on Democratic Development - Midwives or gravediggers of democracy? (Hardcover)
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The Military's Impact on Democratic Development - Midwives or gravediggers of democracy? (Hardcover)
Series: Democratization Special Issues
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Despite the decline in the number of military coups since the 1960s
and 1970s, Militaries continue to be crucial political actors in
many world regions. Their impact on the democratic development of
nations, however, has been mixed. On the one hand, coups against
democratically elected leaders in Mali (2012), Egypt (2013), and
Thailand (2014) have spelled doom for these countries' nascent
democratic regimes and have ushered in new periods of military
dominance in politics. The cases of Portugal (1974), the
Philippines (1986), and Tunisia (2011), on the other hand, show
that the military's decision not to defend authoritarian leaders
against mass protests contributed crucially to the fall of
dictatorships and facilitated transitions to democracy. This volume
addresses the military's ambivalent role as "midwife" or
"gravedigger" of democracy and highlights the often multi-layered
and complex relationship between militaries' political behaviour
and democratization. The chapters were originally published in a
special issue of Democratization.
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