Basically title, because I saw an article from BBC that a few people tried to seize power in Germany. Do they get the power just by occupying the building? Do other states recognise this? What happens to the constitution and the law? Is is a lawless state while they create a new constitution?
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A successful coup has to have backing by the keys to power. Keys can take several different forms. In a dictatorship the keys would be the treasurer, head of the domestic police, head of the military, etc. If you can get one or more of these individuals to back you AND you can over throw the others then you might have a successful coup. In a Revolution like you are seeing in Iran and China right now there is no hope for success on the rebel side. The citizen class in those countries currently do not have the means to seize the keys and emplace their own. The local governments have already exercised the will to use the domestic police and military to violently expel any rebel uprising, and they are willing to endure the protesting until it subsides. Unless the citizens are able to storm the building and execute the entire governing class or enough to gain the compliance of the remaining governing class, then we will only see more bloodshed until everyone gets tired and goes home.
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