@article{415a9adc3a174fa589f0323815564554,
title = "Poverty, the coup trap, and the seizure of executive power",
author = "Londregan, \{John B.\} and Poole, \{Keith T.\}",
note = "Funding Information: * The helpful comments of Alberto Alesina, Jim Alt, Howard Rosenthal, and participants in seminars at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Western Ontario, and the National Bureau of Economic Research are gratefully acknowledged. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of John Londregan's work by BP America. 1See, for example, Henry Bienen, ed., The Military Intervenes: Case Studies in Political Development (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1968); and Samuel Decalo, Coups and Army Rule in Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976). ' Edward Luttwak, Coup d' Etat: A Practical Handbook (New York: Knopf, 1969); Samuel E. Finer, The Man on Horseback (London: Pall Mall, 1962).",
year = "1990",
month = jan,
doi = "10.2307/2010462",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "42",
pages = "151--183",
journal = "World Politics",
issn = "0043-8871",
publisher = "Johns Hopkins University Press",
number = "2",
}