Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series)
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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 elucidate when either the authoritarian or democratic effects of resource wealth will be relatively strong. Exploiting game-theoretic tools and statistical...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521730759
ISBN13:9780521730754
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:350 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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