Crude democracy : natural resource wealth and political regimes /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunning, Thad, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Temas:
Democracy > Economic aspects.
Petroleum > Political aspects.
Natural resources > Political aspects.
Pétrole > Aspect politique.
Ressources naturelles > Aspect politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy > Economic aspects
Natural resources > Political aspects
Petroleum > Political aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Does oil promote democracy?
  • The foundations of rentier states
  • Resource rents and the political regime
  • Statistical tests on rents and the regime
  • The democratic effect of rents
  • Rentier democracy in comparative perspective
  • Theoretical extensions
  • Conclusion: whither the resource curse?

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