How Autocracies Fall / Andrea Kendall-Taylor  

Public ISBD Titre : How Autocracies Fall Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Auteur ; Erica Frantz, Auteur Editeur : The Washington Quarterly Année de publication : Summer 2014 Importance : 13 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Autocratie  Dictature  Coup d'état Résumé : 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’e?tat — or the illegal seizure of power by the military—has been by far the most common. During the 1960s and ‘70s, for example, about half of all autocrats who lost power did so through a coup. But fast - forward to the 2010s, and a different picture is emerging. The chain of protests during the Arab Awakening, which toppled four of the world’s longest-standing rulers—Zineal - Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen—led many political observers to rejoice in the masses’ ability to unseat autocratic strongmen. But are these revolts evidence that autocrats are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the masses? Or are they short-term exceptions to a longer-standing rule of autocratic ouster? (...) En ligne : https://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/sites/twq.elliott.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Kendall-Ta [...] How Autocracies Fall [document électronique] / Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Auteur ; Erica Frantz, Auteur . - [S.l.] : The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2014 . - 13 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Autocratie  Dictature  Coup d'état Résumé : 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’e?tat — or the illegal seizure of power by the military—has been by far the most common. During the 1960s and ‘70s, for example, about half of all autocrats who lost power did so through a coup. But fast - forward to the 2010s, and a different picture is emerging. The chain of protests during the Arab Awakening, which toppled four of the world’s longest-standing rulers—Zineal - Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen—led many political observers to rejoice in the masses’ ability to unseat autocratic strongmen. But are these revolts evidence that autocrats are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the masses? Or are they short-term exceptions to a longer-standing rule of autocratic ouster? (...) En ligne : https://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/sites/twq.elliott.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Kendall-Ta [...]

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