How Autocracies Fall

2014/01/02 by Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Andrea Kendall--Taylor, Erica Frantz · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Political Conflict and Governance

paper · doi:10.1080/0163660x.2014.893172

openalex publication_date 2014/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Because autocrats can rarely be voted out of power, most find themselves exiting office in far less conventional ways. Since the 1950s, the coup d’état—or the illegal seizure of power by the milita...

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