Grand extortion: coup risk and the military as a protection racket.
The governments of many developing countries face a risk of a coup d’état perpetrated by their own military establishment. The phenomenon is especially acute in Africa. We develop a game theoretic model in which the military decides to threaten a coup, and the other party, the government, responds b...
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2006
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