Powell, Jonathan M; Thyne, Clayton L - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 2, pp. 249-259
Once considered a 'hot topic' among scholars, research on coups d'état has waned in recent years. This decline is surprising given that 7 coups have happened between January 2008 and December 2010, bringing the last decade's total to almost three dozen. One explanation for the lack of coup...