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promissory coup: a standalone construct

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Comparative politics

a military overthrow of an elected government framed as a defense of democracy and accompanied by a promise to hold elections and restore civilian rule.

In comparative politics, promissory coup refers to a military overthrow of an elected government framed as a defense of democracy and accompanied by a promise to hold elections and restore civilian rule. This meaning comes from Bermeo (2016) in Journal of Democracy.[1]

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References

Bermeo, N. (2016). On Democratic Backsliding. Journal of Democracy, 27(1), 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2016.0012

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