Democratic Coup D''etat

Zusatztext Varol draws on a wide range of examples to provide a nuanced account of how military interventions in politics can sometimes promote democracy-and why they often do not. Informationen zum Autor Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning law professor and author. He was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, and came to the United States to attend Cornell University, where he served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers mission. Varol received his law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he graduated first in his class. He is currently a tenured law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Klappentext The Democratic Coup d'État advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: democracy sometimes comes through a military coup. Covering coups that toppled dictators and installed democratic rule in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we knew about military coups. Zusammenfassung The Democratic Coup d'État advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: democracy sometimes comes through a military coup. Covering coups that toppled dictators and installed democratic rule in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we knew about military coups.

Product details

• Authors: Ozan Varol, Ozan (Associate Professor of Law Varol, Ozan O. Varol
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780190626013
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062601-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy, Political structures: democracy, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Armed Conflict