Iran's 1953 Coup Revisited: Internal Dynamics versus External Intrigue

Mokhtari, Fariborz

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“…This coup was planned by interests linked to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, with the backing of the United States and Great Britain. In 1951 Mohammad Mosaddeq led the process of nationalisation of the oil company by the Iranian parliament and subsquently became prime minister: two years later, Mosaddeq was deposed in a coup (Mokhtari, 2008). Similarly, the coup against Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán in 1954 occurred after his government confiscated uncultivated land from the U.S.-controlled United Fruit Company.…”

Section: Asset Specificity Policy Change and Coupsmentioning

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Policy change and coups: The role of income inequality and asset specificity

Hiroi

Omori²

2014

International Political Science Review

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Building on the models developed by Boix, Acemoglu, and Robinson on the relationship between economic structures and regime change, we develop a theory that emphasises structural characteristics of societies and the effects of policy change in such circumstances. We posit that significant policy change in an unequal or asset-specific society induces coups against the incumbent political leader by the losing faction of the elites seeking to prevent or cut losses associated with the policy shifts. Our empirical analysis indicates that the risk of a coup rises considerably during a period of a significant policy change in a society with a skewed distribution of income and one dominated by asset-specific production, such as oil, mining, and agriculture.

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Section: Asset Specificity Policy Change and Coupsmentioning

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Policy change and coups: The role of income inequality and asset specificity

Hiroi

Omori²

2014

International Political Science Review

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Iran and the Academy

Shannon¹

2020

A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations

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Reassessing the Eagle and the Lion

Offiler¹

2017

J. Am. Stud.

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In June 2013, Iran surprised many observers by electing the moderate, but still firmly establishment, cleric Hassan Rouhani as President. Following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's eight years in office, few analysts predicted Rouhani's victory. It was expected that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would oversee the election of a more controllable conservative politician than Ahmadinejad had turned out to be. Instead, the array of hard-line candidates presented to the electorate on polling day split the conservative vote, resulting in an overwhelming victory for Rouhani.

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Iran's 1953 Coup Revisited: Internal Dynamics versus External Intrigue

Cited by 26 publications

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Policy change and coups: The role of income inequality and asset specificity

Policy change and coups: The role of income inequality and asset specificity

Iran and the Academy

Reassessing the Eagle and the Lion

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