Thesis
Standing down: the logic of security force defection
- Abstract:
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From Egypt to Venezuela, authoritarian regimes live and die by the sword. Amongst students of democratization, it has become axiomatic that a dictator’s fate in mass upris- ings turns largely on whether the coercive apparatus decides to defend him. Yet, despite its significance, the literature equivocates on the fundamental question of how defection hap- pens. One strand holds that defection is carried through by unhappy soldiers: the defeated, disillusioned, and dispossessed. The other vi...
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+ Kalyvas, S
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-0876-1368
+ Ansell, B
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-8371-0507
+ Economic and Social Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
- DOI:
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Deposit date:
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2021-09-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Keel, J
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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