Author: John Chin | Journal of Democracy

John Chin is an assistant teaching professor of political science in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is coauthor, with Joseph Wright and David Carter, of the Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups D’état (Rowman & Littlefield 2022).

Can Bolivia Ever Escape the Coup Trap?

John Chin
Joseph Wright

The South American country was once the most coup-prone in the world. Many thought it had closed that chapter. So why did it just suffer another attempted coup?