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The Coup Trap in Latin America
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehoucq, Fabrice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coups d'état.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Why do governments get overthrown? Why are many political systems chronically unstable? This book answers these questions by explaining why some Latin American political systems have been among the most unstable-and how others escaped from chronic instability, either by constructing constitutional democracy or establishing durable autocracies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. On chronic instability
- The Latin American political landscape
- Why political systems fall in and out of the coup trap
- Statistical tests of the theory
- Predictions and case studies
- Why instability persists
- Golpes and contra golpes
- Breaking out is hard to do
- Trial by fire
- Conclusions. On the rise and fall of the coup trap.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-74999-4
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