Coup d'état
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A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership. A self-coup is said to tak
General Napoleon Bonaparte during the Coup of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud.Bonaparte at the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud by François Bouchot, 1840
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Democratic backsliding
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Democratic backsliding is a form of autocratization, a process of structural government transition from democracy toward authoritarianism in which the exercise of political power becomes less limited
Hitler gives a speech to the Reichstag in support of the Enabling Act. The collapse of the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany is perhaps the most infamous example of democratic backsliding.
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