Does natural-resource wealth impede transitions to democracy? This article revisits this question with an event history design that differs from the approach used in other recent statistical tests of rentier state theory. The research confirms that autocracy is typically more durable in countries with substantial resource wealth, and the author finds this effect is robust to other measures proposed to explain the dearth of democracy in the Middle East or the Muslim world. Along the way, the author raises concerns about the use of all-countries and all-years samples to test theories of democratization, argu-ing that this design can obscure important differences in the forces driving stability and change among different types of political reg...
through the Banco de España Professorship, and the hospitality of CREI, where the project was initi...
We suggest a dynamic game theoretic model to explain why resource abundance may lead to instability ...
Some scholars suggest that the Middle East's oil wealth helps explain its failure to democratize. Th...
Both the theory and empirical work linking natural resource wealth to authoritarianism and underdeve...
Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their resource weal...
Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their resource weal...
Extant theoretical work on the political resource curse implies that dependence on resource revenues...
Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their resource weal...
How does natural resource abundance influence state and society? Since the late 1980s, a number of s...
The relationship between oil wealth and the probability of democratization has been widely investiga...
We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. ...
Why do some of the world’s countries with the most abundant natural resources, in particular oil wea...
Middle East scholars often suggest that the region's absence of democracy is in part due to its...
What economic factors prevent democratic breakdowns? Since the beginning of the 20th century, more t...
This paper examines the relationship between democracy and natural resource rents. In our political ...
through the Banco de España Professorship, and the hospitality of CREI, where the project was initi...
We suggest a dynamic game theoretic model to explain why resource abundance may lead to instability ...
Some scholars suggest that the Middle East's oil wealth helps explain its failure to democratize. Th...
Both the theory and empirical work linking natural resource wealth to authoritarianism and underdeve...
Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their resource weal...
Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their resource weal...
Extant theoretical work on the political resource curse implies that dependence on resource revenues...
Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their resource weal...
How does natural resource abundance influence state and society? Since the late 1980s, a number of s...
The relationship between oil wealth and the probability of democratization has been widely investiga...
We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. ...
Why do some of the world’s countries with the most abundant natural resources, in particular oil wea...
Middle East scholars often suggest that the region's absence of democracy is in part due to its...
What economic factors prevent democratic breakdowns? Since the beginning of the 20th century, more t...
This paper examines the relationship between democracy and natural resource rents. In our political ...
through the Banco de España Professorship, and the hospitality of CREI, where the project was initi...
We suggest a dynamic game theoretic model to explain why resource abundance may lead to instability ...
Some scholars suggest that the Middle East's oil wealth helps explain its failure to democratize. Th...