Civilian Control of the Armed Forces in Democratic Latin America: Military Prerogatives, Contestation, and Mission Performance in Peru
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Authors
Jaskoski, Maiah
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civil–military relations
Latin America
Peru
military missions
military shirking
Latin America
Peru
military missions
military shirking
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2012
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Abstract
This article presents a new framework for measuring civilian control of the armed
forces in post-transition Latin America. Specifically, it builds on approaches that
focus on military privileges and military protest, particularly in the face of government
challenges to those privileges. Adding mission performance as a third dimension
both helps us measure civilian control more accurately and provides causal
leverage, as the three dimensions can interact. The paper demonstrates the utility
of the framework through a close-up analysis of a critical case: civil–military relations
in Peru since the 1990s.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327X11398449
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National Security Affairs
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Fieldwork for this study was supported by a National Security Education Program David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship and the Naval Postgraduate School Research Initiation Program.
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Armed Forces & Society, Volume 38, Number 1, pp. 70-91
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.