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Crude Democracy : Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunning, Thad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
©2008
Colección:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Does Oil Promote Democracy?; 2 The Foundations of Rentier States; 3 Resource Rents and the Political Regime; 4 Statistical Tests on Rents and the Regime; 5 The Democratic Effect of Rents; 6 Rentier Democracy in Comparative Perspective; 7 Theoretical Extensions; 8 Conclusion: Whither the Resource Curse?; Appendix: Construction of the Simulations; Bibliography; Index.