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Ett slag mot staten: En kvantitativ studie om olika förklaringsfaktorer till militärkuppers utfall

Lindberg, Mathias LU and Beg, Edvard LU (2021) STVA22 20202
Department of Political Science
Abstract
We investigate 125 military coups from 1980 to find out whether organizational cohesion has any impact on the military’s probability to assume control over the ruling authority. Organizational cohesion is operationalized through coup maker rank and military coups as a binary variable. For this to be tested, a logistic regression analysis has been put to use to produce an interpretable result from the data that has been compiled. The initial analysis includes the identified main variables organizational cohesion and military coups to assess the correlation in-between them. The second analysis sees the introduction of several control variables. Considering the result that has been given, the conclusion is made that or-ganizational cohesion... (More)
We investigate 125 military coups from 1980 to find out whether organizational cohesion has any impact on the military’s probability to assume control over the ruling authority. Organizational cohesion is operationalized through coup maker rank and military coups as a binary variable. For this to be tested, a logistic regression analysis has been put to use to produce an interpretable result from the data that has been compiled. The initial analysis includes the identified main variables organizational cohesion and military coups to assess the correlation in-between them. The second analysis sees the introduction of several control variables. Considering the result that has been given, the conclusion is made that or-ganizational cohesion and the outcome of military coups demonstrates a correlation too cryptic to be assessed. Therefore, the hypothesized relationship between organizational cohesion and coup outcomes was not supported by data in this paper. (Less)
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author
Lindberg, Mathias LU and Beg, Edvard LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVA22 20202
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
Organisatorisk sammanhållning, militärkupper, kuppers utfall, kuppledare
language
Swedish
id
9033511
date added to LUP
2021-03-16 14:28:49
date last changed
2021-03-16 14:28:49
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  abstract     = {{We investigate 125 military coups from 1980 to find out whether organizational cohesion has any impact on the military’s probability to assume control over the ruling authority. Organizational cohesion is operationalized through coup maker rank and military coups as a binary variable. For this to be tested, a logistic regression analysis has been put to use to produce an interpretable result from the data that has been compiled. The initial analysis includes the identified main variables organizational cohesion and military coups to assess the correlation in-between them. The second analysis sees the introduction of several control variables. Considering the result that has been given, the conclusion is made that or-ganizational cohesion and the outcome of military coups demonstrates a correlation too cryptic to be assessed. Therefore, the hypothesized relationship between organizational cohesion and coup outcomes was not supported by data in this paper.}},
  author       = {{Lindberg, Mathias and Beg, Edvard}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Ett slag mot staten: En kvantitativ studie om olika förklaringsfaktorer till militärkuppers utfall}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}