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| Title: | On the Structural Explanation of African Military Interventions |
| Author: | Goldsworthy, David |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 179-185 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | coups d'état defence Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/160519 |
| Abstract: | Comment on the aggregate-data approach to the study of military interventions in African politics, as exemplified by the work of T.H. Johnson, P.O. Slater, and P. Mcgowan, 'Explaining African military coups d'etat, 1960-1982' (in: The American Political Science Review, vol. 78, no. 3 (1984)). The author argues that adherence to either this structural-systematic approach or to a personalist-random approach is likely to lead to arguments of a reductionist kind, and that both positions should be taken into account, as well as other less tangible factors, such as culture. Notes, ref. |
