A regime controlling the security forces can still cede power peacefully in transition
Evidence
The 1991 election resulted in a landslide victory for MMD. Chiluba gained almost 76% of the presidential vote and MMD 125 of 150 parliamentary seats (Burnell, 2001: 240). Fears that Kaunda, who controlled the security forces, would use the army to remain in power existed, but he handed over power peacefully to MMD. — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 86
Categorization
- XREF: Contrast case to the threatened-privilege hypothesis: Kaunda faced catastrophic loss yet did not retaliate through the army he commanded, showing status threat alone is insufficient to trigger violence. — connects to: Total domination alone among governments rules out peaceful coexistence — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 40; Transitional pacts preserved technocratic economic continuity across regime change — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1643; Dictatorships do not make peace and end only through defeat or collapse (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Dictatorships do not make peace and end only through defeat or collapse
#contradicts(0.85) - Transitional pacts preserved technocratic economic continuity across regime change
#corroborates(0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1643 - Pacted transitions preserve predecessor regimes’ legal and economic frameworks
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1607 - Total domination alone among governments rules out peaceful coexistence
#qualifies(0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 40 - Neoliberal reforms can proceed without an authoritarian political system
#corroborates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1542