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Mass Protests and the Military
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Abstract In nonviolent mass protests against dictators, the military is the ultimate arbiter of regime survival. Drawing on a global survey of forty "dictator's endgames" from 1946 to 2014, this essay examines how dictators and their militaries respond to popular protests, and what the consequences are in te... view more
In nonviolent mass protests against dictators, the military is the ultimate arbiter of regime survival. Drawing on a global survey of forty "dictator's endgames" from 1946 to 2014, this essay examines how dictators and their militaries respond to popular protests, and what the consequences are in terms of the survival of authoritarianism or the emergence of democracy. The authors argue that the type of the authoritarian regime and the military's legacy of human rights violations go a long way in explaining whether a military will employ violence against the protesters or defect from the ruling coalition.... view less
Keywords
form of domination; non-violence; political movement; society; human rights violation; system change; mass movement; dictatorship; democratization; change of government; international comparison; authoritarian system; military; political domination; change in power; protest movement; authoritarianism
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 141-155
Journal
Journal of Democracy, 29 (2018) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2018.0051
ISSN
1086-3214
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed