Journal article
How to sell a coup: elections as coup legitimation
- Abstract:
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Unlike other political leaders, leaders coming to power through military coups face a dual legitimation challenge: they must justify not only why they should rule but also how they came to power. Little attention has been paid to how coup leaders solve this legitimacy deficit and even less to the audiences of this legitimation. We ask: why do some coup leaders legitimate their coups by holding elections while others do not? Counterintuitively, we argue that coup leaders who oust democraticall...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal website
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1001-1031
- Publication date:
- 2018-09-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1552-8766
- ISSN:
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0022-0027
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1131237
- Local pid:
- pubs:1131237
- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Grewal and Kureshi
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2018The Author(s).
- Notes:
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from SAGE Publications at https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002718770508
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