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Crude democracy : natural resource wealth and political regimes /
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through different mechanisms; an understanding of these different mechanisms can help e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through different mechanisms; an understanding of these different mechanisms can help elucidate when either the authoritarian or democratic effects of resource wealth will be relatively strong. Exploiting game-theoretic tools and statistical modeling as well as detailed country case studies and drawing on fieldwork in Latin America and Africa, this book builds and tests a theory that explains political variation across resource-rich states. It will be read by scholars studying the political effects of natural resource wealth in many regions, as well as by those interested in the emergence and persistence of democratic regimes. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 327 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511457449 0511457448 0511456131 9780511456138 0511453426 9780511453427 9780511510052 0511510055 1281944769 9781281944764 9786611944766 6611944761 0511454384 9780511454387 0511455429 9780511455421 |