Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS - 2009
strong army. In weakly-institutionalized polities this opens the way for excessive influence or coups by the military …, they may be forced to build over-sized armies, beyond the size necessary for fighting the insurrection, as a commitment to … not reforming the military in the future. …