If you'll be my bodyguard: presidential guard units and leader capture during coup d'etat/

MATTHEWS Austin S.

If you'll be my bodyguard: presidential guard units and leader capture during coup d'etat/ Austin S. Matthews - 2025

Incumbent leader capture has a positive and significant relationship with the likelihood of coup success. The findings also suggest that leader capture will be less likely if the regime pre-emptively creates a counterweight presidential guard unit, responsible for providing proximate security for the core leadership.


COUP D'ETAT
POLITICAL VIOLENCE
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS