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Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty : Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia /

Drawing on research in Iran and Indonesia and quantitative research on 19 other oil-rich developing countries, Smith challenges readers to reconsider resource wealth in late-developing countries, not as a simple curse or blessing, but instead as a flexible source of both political resources and pote...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Benjamin B., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Oil wealth and politics in the developing world : theories and evidence
  • Explaining regime durability in oil-rich states : oil, opposition, and late development
  • The impact and legacies of oil and late development : coalitions and state building before the boom
  • The oil booms and beyond : two exporting states confront crisis
  • Oil, opposition, and late development : regime breakdown and persistence in twenty-one oil-exporting states.