TY - BOOK AU - MATTHEWS Austin S. TI - If you'll be my bodyguard: presidential guard units and leader capture during coup d'etat PY - 2025/// KW - COUP D'ETAT KW - POLITICAL VIOLENCE KW - CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS N2 - 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 ER -