Crude Democracy

Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes

By:

Thad Dunning

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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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 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.

Author Biography:

Thad Dunning is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a Research Fellow at Yale's Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Dunning's previous work has appeared in International Organization, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Analysis, Studies in Comparative International Development, and other journals. His research interests lie in comparative politics, political economy, and international relations.

Release date Australia

September 8th, 2008

Author

Thad Dunning

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

7 Tables, unspecified

Pages

350

Series

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Dimensions

152x229x24

ISBN-13

9780521515009

Product ID

3672394

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