Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics

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Miriam R. Lowi

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Cambridge Middle East Studies

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How can we make sense of Algeria's post-colonial experience - the tragedy of unfulfilled expectations, the descent into violence, the resurgence of the state? Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics explains why Algeria's domestic political economy unravelled from the mid-1980s, and how the regime eventually managed to regain power and hegemony. Miriam Lowi argues the importance of leadership decisions for political outcomes, and extends the argument to explain the variation in stability in oil-exporting states following economic shocks. Comparing Algeria with Iran, Iraq, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, she asks why some states break down and undergo regime change, while others remain stable, or manage to re-stabilise after a period of instability. In contrast with exclusively structuralist accounts of the rentier state, this book demonstrates, in a fascinating and accessible study, that political stability is a function of the way in which structure and agency combine.

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Miriam R. Lowi is Professor of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. Her previous publications include Water and Power: the Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin (Cambridge, 1995) and Environment and Security: Discourses and Practices (2000).

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November 12th, 2009

Author

Miriam R. Lowi

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

252

Series

Cambridge Middle East Studies

Dimensions

158x235x20

ISBN-13

9780521113182

Product ID

3619634

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