Midwives or gravediggers of democracy?

• Verfasst von: Kühn, David [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Midwives or gravediggers of democracy?
• Titelzusatz: the military’s impact on democratic development
• Verf.angabe: David Kuehn
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: 31 May 2017
• Umfang: 18 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 27.11.2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Democratization
• Ort Quelle: Ilford, Essex : Cass, 1994
• Jahr Quelle: 2017
• Band/Heft Quelle: 24(2017), 5, Seite 783-800
• ISSN Quelle: 1743-890X
• DOI: doi:10.1080/13510347.2017.1324421
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Midwives or gravediggers of democracy?. - Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. - Seite 783 - 888
• Sach-SW: military
• Sach-SW: civil-military relations
• Sach-SW: contestation
• Sach-SW: coup
• Sach-SW: democratic breakdown
• K10plus-PPN: 1584506687

Abstract

The political role of the military and its impact on the emergence, persistence and consolidation of new democracies has generated a large body of scholarship. In the light of military coups in a number of Third Wave democracies such as Ecuador (2000), Thailand (2006 and 2014), Honduras (2006) and Mali (2012), the return to electoral competition in a number of military-dominated regimes, and the military’s pivotal role during the Arab Spring, this research has recently focused on the forms, reasons and consequences of military contestation on democratic development. This special issue contributes to this recent scholarship by analysing both the potentially beneficial as well as the deleterious implications of military contestation on democratic transitions, quality and persistence in different world regions. This article introduces the special issue by providing a broader context for the four individual contributions and relates their findings to the recent theoretical and empirical literature on the military’s role as a midwife or gravedigger of democracy.