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Title:On the Structural Explanation of African Military Interventions
Author:Goldsworthy, DavidISNI
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.
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