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Sixty Coups in Thirty Years – Further Evidence Regarding African Military Coups d'État

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Pat McGowan  and
Thomas H. Johnson
Pat McGowan
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University, Tempe
Thomas H. Johnson
Affiliation:
Director, Policy Sciences Division, The Orkand Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland
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Decolonisation in sub-Saharan Africa began in January 1956 when the Sudan joined long-independent Ethiopia and Liberia as a new, post-colonial state. Although the process is not yet complete because of the disputed status of Namibia and South Africa's continued rule by a white minority, over the past 30 years as many as 43 new states have achieved independence from colonial rule, the most recent being Zimbabwe in April 1980.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1986 , pp. 539 - 546
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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References

Page 539 note 1 McGowan, Pat and Johnson, Thomas H., ‘African Military Coups d'État and Underdevelopment: a quantitative historical analysis’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 22, 4, 12 1984, pp. 633–66.Google Scholar

Page 539 note 2 Kautsky, John H., The Political Consequences of Modernization (New York, 1972), pp. 162–9.Google Scholar

Page 539 note 3 Copies of our 1956–85 Event Intervention File are available to all interested students and researchers in two formats: (i) a 130-page photo-duplicated ‘hard copy’ version which may be purchased for US $10.00 in the form of a personal cheque or an international money order, made payable to ‘Department of Political Science, ASU’; and (ii) on I.B.M/P.C. ‘Word Star’ compatible 5¼ inch floppy disks, in which case, if the Department receives eight blank disks, they will be copied and returned at no cost to the person or institution making the request. You are invited to write to Professor Pat McGowan, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States, or to call Area Code (602) 965–5200, with respect to which format is most appropriate for your teaching and/or research requirements. We shall continue to collect military intervention events, and intend to summarise and report the results of our research periodically in the pages of this Journal.