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4 Hum. Rts. Q. 110 (1982)
Militaray Regimes and Rights in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective

handle is hein.journals/hurq4 and id is 120 raw text is: RESEARCH NOTE Military Regimes and Rights in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective Conway Henderson The myth of a group of dedicated military professionals taking over from corrupt, inefficient civilians in developing countries and setting things right has been effectively challenged by the literature of the 1960s and 1970s. Not only have many writers questioned the rationales of military elites for their coups, but convincing evidence has been amassed to show that military regimes are not more effective in policy areas such as economic moderniza- tion than were the prior civilian governments.1 While most of the literature has been devoted to explaining the reasons for military coups and the failure of military rule to cope with economic woes in developing countries, an occasional writer has referred to the relationship between military rule and democratic practices.2 In fact, part of the rationale for military intervention My colleague, Choong Lee, has given the author much valuable assistance in computer pro- gramming and data analysis. 1. Examples of literature that deal with the causes of military coups and which compare their policy performances with civilian governments are S. E. Finer, The Man on Horse- back: The Role of the Military in Politics (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962); Morris Janowitz, The Military in the Political Development of New Nations: An Essay in Com- parative Analysis (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964); Henry Bienen, ed., The Military Intervenes: Case Studies in Political Development (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1968); Eric A. Nordlinger, Soldiers in Mufti: The Impact of Military Rule Upon Economic and Social Change in the Non-Western States, American Political Science Review 64 (1970) 4:1131-48; Robert W. Jackman, Politicians in Uniform: Military Governments and Social Change in the Third World, American Political Science Review 70 (1976) 4:1078-97; R. D. McKinlay and A. S. Cohan, Performance and Instability in Military and Non-military Regime Systems, American Political Science Review 70 (1976) 3:850-64; Samuel Decalo, Coups and Army Rule in Africa: Studies in Military Style (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976); Kim Quaile Hall, Military Role Versus Military Rule: Allocations to Military Activities, Comparative Politics 11 (1979) 3:371-77. 2. For example, see Finer, The Man on Horseback, pp. 36-37; Janowitz, The Military in the Political Development of New Nations, p. 104; Edwin Lieuwen, Generals versus Presi- dents: Neomilitarism in Latin America (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964), p. 110; and Aristide R. Zolberg, Military Intervention in the New States of Tropical Africa: Elements of Comparative Analysis, in Henry Bienen, ed., pp. 88-89.

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