Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research?

Marsteintredet, Leiv; Malamud, Andrés

doi:10.1177/0032321719888857

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“…During this interactive process, power differentials (material and ideational) influence the political calculations of international peers. Furthermore, as stated by Marsteintredet and Malamud (2019), the conceptual stretching by calling PBs coups with adjectives added (such as soft, parliamentary, constitutional, market or neoliberal, civil society, and judicial) facilitates international actors to respond accordingly to the label that fits them best.…”

Section: Literature Review: Latin American Foreign Policies and Presi...mentioning

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The effects of presidential breakdowns on foreign policy in Latin America

Sposito

2023

Latin American Policy

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Presidents and their ideologies have long been thought to be important explanatory variables in Latin American foreign policy, but little is known about how presidential breakdowns, a common form of leader change, affect foreign policy. I use a qualitative structured comparison to analyze the effects of nine presidential ousters on their successors’ foreign policies. I focus on cases in which the legitimacy of the process is in a gray zone, when narrative disputes are more likely to emerge. The findings indicate that incumbents politicize foreign policy when they use it to attain public support but accommodate it to congressional interests when they need support of Congress; meanwhile, international peers respond to presidential breakdowns according to their strategic and ideological rather than normative concerns. Even though Latin America is dominated by weak states, domestic politics, especially during crises, play a major role in explaining their foreign policies. Considering the role played by presidents in foreign policymaking, understanding this kind of presidential succession is essential.

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Section: Literature Review: Latin American Foreign Policies and Presi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of presidential breakdowns on foreign policy in Latin America

Sposito

2023

Latin American Policy

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“…Though there were many grounded theory studies, none utilized theoretic sampling consistent with any grounded theory strand and with the purpose to disconfirm (Gentles et al, 2015;Marks, 2007). Everyone found what they were looking for; a theme in all studies was finding one's ideas and positions were right and good, which could be due to concept creeping (similar to Marsteintredet & Malamud, 2020) or poorly constructing themes (Lucas & D'Enbeau, 2013). Peng et al (2001) Experts might have claimed qualitative research should be chaotic, but everything channeled into an upside-down pyramid from the raw data, codes, categories, and themes.…”

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An Integrative Qualitative Framework: Improving Research Through Strategic Mapping

Coker¹

2023

IRE

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Outside of education, many academic disciplines developed and promulgated checklists to evaluate the quality of qualitative studies. This article used an embedded mixed methods approach in three stages: development of a conceptual framework reviewing 62 guidelines; a content analysis of key areas of the guidelines; and review of dissertations to see how practices compare to model guidelines. Using 15 educational administration dissertations in the United States, a thematic analysis examined components of the three frameworks: planning the study, in the field, and reporting results. Many researchers failed to adequately describe methods in all phases, with lack of intensity in fieldwork being a ubiquitous problem. Developing validity and reliability should move from a post hoc procedure to a central component in all stages of design. The implications of the frameworks move beyond a rigid checklist and provide direction to develop strategic mapping for designing research in an iterative fashion to optimize representativeness of findings.

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“…The notion of a self-coup can get quickly lost in an extended family of related concepts, with a classic military coup being the obvious first comparison (Marsteintredet and Malamud 2020). But there are numerous kinds of attack on government beyond military coups that share some but not all traits with self-coups.…”

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The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations

2022

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The storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 was a presidential attempt at a self-coup. To make the case, this article reviews elements of the Capitol assault and the events leading up to it, in light of the key conceptual components of a self-coup, and how those compare to attributes of other kinds of attacks on governments. The Trump self-coup will then be compared and contrasted empirically to other self-coups perpetrated by leaders. It is found that what separates successful self-coups from those that fail is whether the military backs the undertaking. Thus, a section is included on US military behaviour in response to Trump's attempts to gain military adherence for his political actions.

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Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research?

Cited by 28 publications

References 55 publications

The effects of presidential breakdowns on foreign policy in Latin America

The effects of presidential breakdowns on foreign policy in Latin America

An Integrative Qualitative Framework: Improving Research Through Strategic Mapping

The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations

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