nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191115-210332-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191115s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191115-210332-0 doi eng 342 23 Velasco Rivera, Mariana Author aut Justifying a Coup d’État in the Name of Democracy? Velasco Rivera, Mariana Verfassungsblog 2019-11-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Why is there so much resistance to call the forced resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales by it's name? To call these events a coup and at the same time to justify and/or being comfortable with them would involve an express rejection of democracy as “the only game in town” and amount to normalizing non-institutional and violent means for the handover of power. The case is a challenge for comparative constitutionalism in general. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coup d'Etat Evo Morales Reelection Clause Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/justifying-a-coup-detat-in-the-name-of-democracy/ raw object