Center for African Studies

Institutions | State

Sebastian Elischer,  UF. Post-­military Coup Protest and its Consequences. Findings from  Guinea and  Côte d’Ivoire. November 2 | 3:00pm EST. Join Via Zoom.

Recent scholarship argues that post-Cold War military coups do not necessarily result in military dictatorship. In some countries the armed forces have paved the way for competitive elections between civilian-led political parties, and depart from power voluntarily. In others, the armed forces have rigged elections in favor of their preferred political party or have established a military dictatorship. What explains this variation? Drawing on a global dataset, the project pursues a combination of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative global analysis and process-tracing techniques with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. It accounts for different outcomes by focusing on the composition and conduct of civil society organizations in the aftermath of military coups.