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UNINA9910453885203321 |
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Autore |
Dunning Thad <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Crude democracy : natural resource wealth and political regimes / / Thad Dunning [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-19038-X |
1-281-94476-9 |
9786611944766 |
0-511-45613-1 |
0-511-51005-5 |
0-511-45744-8 |
0-511-45438-4 |
0-511-45342-6 |
0-511-45542-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Democracy - Economic aspects |
Petroleum - Political aspects |
Natural resources - Political aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Does oil promote democracy? -- The foundations of rentier states -- Resource rents and the political regime -- Statistical tests on rents and the regime -- The democratic effect of rents -- Rentier democracy in comparative perspective -- Theoretical extensions -- Conclusion: whither the resource curse? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 modeling as well as |
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