dc.description.abstract | Nowadays, the overthrow of power often occurs against the developing country
leaders by using the coup, as happened in the Republic of Niger on February 18,
2010, where President Mamadou Tandja was ousted from his office through a coup
which carried out by the military. The coup was triggered by Tandja's plan to hold a
referendum to change the constitution. The referendum has secured the refusal of
National Assembly and Constitutional Court of Niger, and they declared that the
plan is illegal. Tandja considered to do inconstitutional action by holding a
referendum. The coup took place because there are several causing factors that
influence the coup. This research aims to determine what factors cause a coup
toward President Tandja in Niger in 2010. The data used by the authors is the data
obtained from the Library of the University of Jember, Jember University Library
FISIP and data that derived from the internet. The author does the research used
qualitative methods of research, that is the method of collecting data with literature
study. Researches carried out indirectly, through literature study or secondary data.
The data were obtained by collecting data from literature books, journals, papers,
magazines, newspapers and the data contained in the Internet sites that have
relevance to the problem. Based on the data and methods used by the author, a
military coup toward President Tandja in Niger in 2010 was influenced by several
factors, those were military behavior as a guardian of state, which supported by
inconstitutional act done by the President, the declining of economic growth, and
precipited by the falling of the civilian government’s legitimacy. | en_US |