Conditions of civilian control in new democracies: an empirical analysis of 28 ‘third wave’ democracies

Kuehn, David; Croissant, Aurel; Kamerling, Jil; Lueders, Hans; Strecker, André

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“…Croissant, et.al. (2013) and Kuehn, et.al. (2016) then split each of these areas into two dimensions: policy-making and policy-implementation.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Competing explanations on what factors influence the degree of civilian control over the armed forces have long existed yet there is a lack of conclusion among these explanations. They range from structural factors such as threat environment, economic condition or performance, civilian power and unity, to the so-called agencies-related factors such as military ideology, military unity and organizational coherence, and military economic interest (Croissant, 2004;Kuehn andLorenz, 2011 in Feaver 1996). This paper focuses on internal threat (Global Peace Index/GPI), economic condition or GDP (The World Bank), civil liberties (Freedom House Index), and defense spending (SIPRI).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to statistical analysis, scholars have also developed multimethod research to overcome the limitation of case and comparison studies such as using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) (Goertz 2016). Kuehn, et.al. (2016) employ a QCA method in explaining the degree of civilian control over the armed forces.…”

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Establishing Civilian Control over the Armed Forces

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2017

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Using simple regression, this paper examines the explanans to the degree of civilian control over the armed forces. This paper takes into consideration four of the most considered independent variables to explain the degree of civilian control over the armed forces, i.e. internal threat, economic condition, civil liberties, and military access to resources. It suggests that the degree of internal threat is negatively correlated with the degree of civilian control over the armed forces while economic condition, civil liberties, and defense spending, or access to resources, enhance the degree of civilian control over the armed forces. In addition, it also suggests that civil liberties have the highest influence to the degree of civilian control over the armed forces, controlling the other independent variables. Since civil liberties are closely related to degree of democracy, it basically confirms previous research that suggest the degree of civilian control is closely and positively correlated with the maturity of democracy.

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“…Croissant, et.al. (2013) and Kuehn, et.al. (2016) then split each of these areas into two dimensions: policy-making and policy-implementation.…”

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2017

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“…Existing research on the erosion of civilian control identifies multiple coupinducing factors, including ineffective institutions (Belkin & Schofer, 2003;Kuehn et al, 2017;Perlmutter, 1969); volatile civil society (Belkin & Schofer, 2003;Gassebner et al, 2016); questionable regime legitimacy (Lindberg & Clark, 2008;Stepan, 1971); poor economic performance (Bell & Sudduth, 2017;Luttwak, 1969); and uncertain future of military institution (Acemoglu et al, 2010). Empirical evidence suggests that intra-state wars-where many of these factors coincide-provide a particularly conducive environment for coups (Bell & Sudduth, 2017;Collier & Hoeffler, 2005;Piplani & Talmadge, 2016;Svolik, 2012).…”

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Erosion of Civilian Control in Democracies: A Comprehensive Framework for Comparative Analysis

Beliakova

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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Civilian control of the military is a fundamental attribute of democracy. While democracies are less coup-prone, studies treating civilian control as a dependent variable mostly focus on coups. In this paper, I argue that the factors predicting coups in autocracies, weaken civilian control of the military in democracies in different ways. To capture this difference, I advance a new comprehensive framework that includes the erosion of civilian control by competition, insubordination, and deference. I test the argument under conditions of an intrastate conflict—a conducive environment for the erosion of civilian control. A large-N analysis confirms that while intrastate conflict does not lead to coups in democracies, it increases the military’s involvement in government, pointing to alternative forms of erosion taking place. Further case study—Russia’s First Chechen War—demonstrates the causal logic behind the new framework, contributing to the nuanced comparative analysis of civil-military relations across regimes.

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“…También en el ámbito transnacional e interregional se ha registrado un incremento de contribuciones QCA (Anckar, 2004;Schneider y Wagemann, 2006;Osa y Corduneanu-Huci, 2008;Kuehn et al, 2017;Arugay, 2014;Grauvogel y Soest, 2014;Giuliani, 2016;Schneider y Maerz, 2017;Ingrams, 2018;Maerz, 2019Maerz, , 2020Tomini y Wagemann, 2018;Maerz y Schneider, 2020). Entre las investigaciones más relevantes cabe destacar la obra de de Schneider (2008) sobre la consolidación de la democracia en América Latina y Europa.…”

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Los métodos mixtos de investigación para el análisis del cambio político en el Norte de África y Oriente Próximo

Del-Moral

2020

Rev. Esp. Cienc. Polít.

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Democratization processes are a relevant issue for Comparative Politics. However, cross-regional proposals comparing cases from different geographical areas based on context sensitivity are still limited, whereas comparative research using mixed-method approaches such as Comparative Area Studies (CAS) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) are very exceptional. In spite of their scarcity, these methods present advantages both conceptually and methodologically. On the one hand, regions acquire relevance as an analytical category, not as an explanatory element. On the other hand, they help to test theories previously applied to particular regional or local contexts. This mixed approach is highly adaptable to political change studies and it is particularly useful for comparative studies. In fact, it allows for a contextual description of countries; favours classification; enables evaluating previous theories; and facilitates comparisons. However, most of QCA publications are focused on evaluating classical theories and they do not usually take into account the asymmetry of processes of political change. In this regard, this publication recommends distinguishing between types of political change processes and including new conditions that have only been covered from intrarregional and case study research on the Middle East and North Africa studies (MENA).

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Conditions of civilian control in new democracies: an empirical analysis of 28 ‘third wave’ democracies

Cited by 16 publications

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Establishing Civilian Control over the Armed Forces

Establishing Civilian Control over the Armed Forces

Erosion of Civilian Control in Democracies: A Comprehensive Framework for Comparative Analysis

Los métodos mixtos de investigación para el análisis del cambio político en el Norte de África y Oriente Próximo

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