Format:
1 online resource (351 pages)
ISBN:
9780511454387
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Content:
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Does Oil Promote Democracy? -- 1.1 The Authoritarian and Democratic Effects of Natural Resources -- 1.2 Explaining Variation -- 1.3 Method and Plan of the Book -- 2 The Foundations of Rentier States -- 2.1 Sources of Rents -- 2.2 Fiscal Effects: Natural Resources and Taxation -- 2.3 Toward the Political Effects of Rents -- 2.3.1 The Democratic Effect of Resource Rents -- 3 Resource Rents and the Political Regime -- 3.1 A Model of Coups against Democracy -- 3.1.1 The Setting -- 3.1.2 Timing of the Coup Game and Definition of Equilibrium -- 3.1.3 Solving the Coup Game -- 3.1.4 Comparative Statics -- 3.1.5 Explaining Variation -- 3.2 A Model of Democratization -- 3.2.1 Timing of Democratization Game -- 3.2.2 Analysis -- 3.2.3 Comparative Statics -- 3.3 Discussion and Interpretation -- 4 Statistical Tests on Rents and the Regime -- 4.1 Concepts and Measures -- 4.1.1 Resource Rents -- 4.1.2 Resource Dependence -- 4.1.3 Private Inequality -- 4.1.4 Democracy -- 4.2 Rents and the Level of Democracy -- 4.2.1 A Direct Test -- 4.2.2 An Indirect Test -- 4.2.3 Dichotomous Regimes -- 4.2.4 The Authoritarian Effect of Resource Dependence -- 4.3 Democratic Transitions and Breakdowns -- 4.3.1 A Dynamic Probit Model -- 4.3.2 Coups -- 4.4 Assessing the Large-N Evidence -- 5 The Democratic Effect of Rents -- 5.1 Case Selection: Probing the Mechanisms -- 5.2 Venezuela: The Rise and Demise of Rentier Democracy -- 5.2.1 The Rise of the Democratic Rentier State -- 5.2.2 The Demise of the Democratic Rentier State -- 5.2.3 The Renewal of the Democratic Rentier State? -- 5.2.4 Alternative Explanations -- 6 Rentier Democracy in Comparative Perspective -- 6.1 Chile: Class Conflict in a Rentier Democracy.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521515009
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521515009
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Dunning, Thad, 1973 - Crude democracy New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780521730754
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521515009
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Politisches System
;
Rohstoff
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Demokratie
;
Rohstoff
;
Natürliche Ressourcen
;
Demokratie
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