Routes to Reform: Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave(Oxford Studies in Democratization)

This book examines the conditions under which new democracies succeed or fail in establishing firm and lasting civilian control of the military. David Kuehn and Aurel Croissant introduce a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to evaluate the degree of civilian control in new democracies and to trace developments over time. The theory of civilian control in new democracies that they propose integrates rationalist, structuralist, and institutionalist arguments into a coherent model to explain when, how, and through which causal mechanism new democracies succeed or fail in establishing and sustaining civilian control over the military. This theory is tested on an original dataset on civilian control over the military in 66 countries that have made the transition from authoritarian to democratic rule at least once in the period from 1974 to 2010. The study traces the effects of different degrees of civilian control on the survival and democratic quality of third wave democracies, combining large-N statistical analyses with detailed case study narratives of several countries. The book establishes a comprehensive understanding of the conditions and processes under which third wave democracies succeeded or failed in establishing firm and lasting civilian control of the military-and its consequences for the survival and quality of the new democratic structures, processes, and practices.

Table of Contents:
1: Introduction 2: Conceptualizing and theorizing civilian control 3: Mapping and explanining civilian control in third wave democracies 4: Reforming civil-military relations 5: The effect of civilian control on democracy 6: Democratic survival and quality 7: Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the Author :
David Kuehn is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. His research focuses on civil-military relations, democratization, and authoritarianism. He is the (co-)author or (co-)editor of six books and his articles have appeared in journals such as Democratization, the European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, the Journal of Democracy, and Sociological Methods and Research. From 2009 to 2019, he was co-ordinator of the Working Group "Civilian Control of the Military", part of the European Research Groups on Military and Society (ERGOMAS). Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University and Visiting Professor at Ewha Womans University. He previously taught at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA). His research interests include civil-military relations, democratization, authoritarianism, and comparative Asian politics. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Democratization and a member of the Academic Advisory Boards of the German Institute for Global Affairs, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, and the Sustainable Governance Indicators.

Review :
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