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Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes

By Thad Dunning

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521515009, 9780521515009, 9780511457449
LCC
JC423 .D824 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1690305 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Edition
1
Pages
351\351
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36
Политические дисциплины;Политология;Политическая иполитические режимы и системы

Description

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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