The Rule of the "Iron Surgeons": Military Government in Spain and Ghana

Feit, Edward

doi:10.2307/421491

Comparative Politics

1969

DOI: 10.2307/421491

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The Rule of the "Iron Surgeons": Military Government in Spain and Ghana

Edward Feit¹

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Military Coups and Military Régimes in Africa

Decalo¹

1973

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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In the past several years there has been a proliferation of studies on coup d'états in Africa and the political role of African military structures. Armies have been analysed in terms of their social and ethnic composition, training, ideology, and socialising influences. Intense debate has focused around the overt and covert reasons for their intervention in the political arena. Simple and complex typologies of civil–military relations and of military coups have been constructed; statistical data – both hard and soft – has been marshalled and subjected to factor and regression analysis, in order to validate general or middle-range theories of military intervention. And once in power, the officer corps' performance has been examined in order to generate insights into its propensity to serve as a modernising or developmental agent.

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Military Coups and Military Régimes in Africa

Decalo¹

1973

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Setbacks to Political Institutionalisation by Praetorianism in Africa

Agyeman¹

1988

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Praetorianism has been authoritatively defined as a situation in which ‘the military class of a given society exercises independent political power within it by virtue of an actual or threatened use of military force’.1 A praetorian state, by elaboration, is one in which the military tends to intervene and potentially could dominate the political system. The political processes of this state favor the development of the military as the core group and the growth of its expectations as a ruling class; its political leadership (as distinguished from bureaucratic, administrative and managerial leadership) is chiefly recruited from the military, or from groups sympathetic, or at least not antagonistic, to the military. Constitutional changes are effected and sustained by the militaty, and the army frequently intervenes in the government.2

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Bibliographic Essay on the Role of the Military in African States

Doro

1971

A Current Bibliography on African Affairs

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The Rule of the "Iron Surgeons": Military Government in Spain and Ghana

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Military Coups and Military Régimes in Africa

Military Coups and Military Régimes in Africa

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Bibliographic Essay on the Role of the Military in African States

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