The Man On Horseback: The Role Of The Military In Politics
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In one of the most incisive works of political science ever written, Samuel Edward Finer presents a sweeping, systematic analysis of military intervention in civilian government — a phenomenon as old as organised states and as urgent as today's headlines. The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics maps the conditions under which armed forces seize power, sustain it, and are ultimately forced to relinquish it, drawing on a vast range of historical and contemporary case studies from Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to construct a unified theory of military politics. Finer argues with forensic precision that the military's propensity to intervene is not a matter of ideology or geography but of the political culture and institutional legitimacy of the state it inhabits — a thesis that proved as provocative as it was revelatory upon the book's first publication in 1962. His prose is sharp, his framework rigorous, and his conclusions deeply unsettling for anyone who takes civilian supremacy for granted. A foundational text in comparative politics, this work remains as compulsively readable as it is intellectually indispensable — and the questions it raises about who truly holds power have never been more relevant.
Author: S.E. Finer
Format: Paperback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In one of the most incisive works of political science ever written, Samuel Edward Finer presents a sweeping, systematic analysis of military intervention in civilian government — a phenomenon as old as organised states and as urgent as today's headlines. The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics maps the conditions under which armed forces seize power, sustain it, and are ultimately forced to relinquish it, drawing on a vast range of historical and contemporary case studies from Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to construct a unified theory of military politics. Finer argues with forensic precision that the military's propensity to intervene is not a matter of ideology or geography but of the political culture and institutional legitimacy of the state it inhabits — a thesis that proved as provocative as it was revelatory upon the book's first publication in 1962. His prose is sharp, his framework rigorous, and his conclusions deeply unsettling for anyone who takes civilian supremacy for granted. A foundational text in comparative politics, this work remains as compulsively readable as it is intellectually indispensable — and the questions it raises about who truly holds power have never been more relevant.