1. Authoritarian reversals and Democratic Consolidation, 102 AM;E G See;POL. SCI. REV,2008
2. In contrast, the "absolutist state" emerged in the West in roughly the sixteenth century as a "recharged and redeployed apparatus of feudal domination;John Dunn;LINEAGES OF THE ABSOLUTE STATE,2005
3. We have updated Przeworski's data to include Thailand 2006 (and 2009);Adam Przeworski;Mauritania,2005
4. Coups occur in both democracies and nondemocracies, but are more common in the former;Jonathan M Powell & Clayton;Coup d'�tat and Democracy,2011