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Contra-Coup: Civilian Control of the Military in Guinea, Tanzania, and Mozambique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Elise Forbes Pachter
Elise Forbes Pachter
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Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
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One of the more popular topics in the social science literature of the late 1960s was coups d'état in Africa. Authors developed sophisticated social, political, and economic measurements that were meant to be of explanatory, if not predictive, value. Military coups often succeed because of conditions that are universal to African countries: poor institutionalisation, over-dampening of demands, economic shortfalls, failure of political leadership, competition among élites including army officers, as well as dissatisfaction specific to the military. With no long-standing indigenous and successful tradition of legitimate civilian national government, African countries are particularly vulnerable to abrupt successions of leadership.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1982 , pp. 595 - 612
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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