Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Petrarca , Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2013
We show the existence of a diffusion process of military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1972 through 2007, using panel data probit estimation and a Markov chain transition model. This process is shortly-lived, since we observe an overall trend that reduces the number of military...