Causes and Triggers of Coups d'état: An Event History Analysis

Politics and Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-64

  Hiroi, Taeko ^a   Omori, Sawa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Autocracy; Comparative Politics; Coup d' tat; Democratic Breakdown; Event History Analysis; Hybrid Regimes; Nondemocratic Regimes; Political Instability; Regime Change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874868597     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/polp.12001     Document Type: Article

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