While the information provided on these coups is relatively interesting, the conclusions are less so.
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Instead, they survive by preventing splits in the elite, military coups, and, most important of all, mass collective action.
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The cruder method of fomenting military coups had been replaced by financing and training civilian opponents, but the aim was still the same.
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His presentation of the taxonomy of causes of coups is very impressive.
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When the standard deviation of stock market returns is excluded, however, revolutions and coups enter with the usual negative sign.
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Taylor, however, replied that there should be no more coups because they would weaken the government further.
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Revolutions and coups, and other variables that proxy for political instability, typically enter negatively in growth regressions.
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Likewise, the degree of violence involved can range from none, so-called ' bloodless coups ', to pronounced.
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The preceding 12 years, 1978 to 1989 saw 54 attempted coups, of which 26 (48 %) were successful.
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To be sure, some form of elite cooperation did continue after the election of 1993, and carried the fragile situation through two earlier attempted military coups.
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Alongside the patient accounts of summit-meetings long forgotten, of coups and elections and the comings and goings of heads of state, a few key ideas run through the narrative.
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Despite the changes in organisation names, the nature of recruitment and the sociopolitical environment have nevertheless sustained identifiable coalitions and networks across elections and military coups.
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Many have failed in these domestic tasks, as witnessed by the high incidence of political violence, ethnic strife, military coups, and the failure of democratic experiments until the early 1990s.
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The question, however, is how far such a consensus (assuming that it does exist) percolates down to the junior ranks, from where most of the attempted coups have come.
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When governments inconvenience them by trying to retain minimum government rights or increase basic wages, they even use coups against them.
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Collocationswithcoup
coup
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attempted coup
The rivalry between ethnic factions was confirmed by anattemptedcoupin 1982.
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coup attempt
Cognisant of the democratic support of civil society and students in the previouscoupattempt, the military unleashed an exceptionally violent coup.
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coup leaders
There are no right-wing or left-wing coup leaders or dictators, merely repressive and freedom-destroying ones.
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