Coup traps: why does Africa have so many coups d'état?
In Africa coup plots are by far the most common challenge to the continuity of regimes. In this paper we investigate proneness to coups by drawing on our previous work on proneness to civil war. The most striking aspect of our results is the similarity in the causes of coups and civil wars. Standard...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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