Crude democracy : natural resource wealth and political regimes / / Thad Dunning [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Dunning Thad <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 321.8
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - Economic aspects; Petroleum - Political aspects; Natural resources - Political aspects
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crude democracy
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453885203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in comparative politics.