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Crude Democracy : Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes by Thad Dunning
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- Book Title
- Crude Democracy : Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes T
- Subject
- Politics
- ISBN
- 9780521730754
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521730759
ISBN-13
9780521730754
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66608490
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
350 Pages
Publication Name
Crude Democracy : Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes
Language
English
Subject
International Relations / General, General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Natural Resources
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Political Science
Series
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-018121
Reviews
"Thad Dunning has produced an outstanding book, founded on a theoretically-sophisticated re-evaluation of the popular and academic consensus linking oil and resource wealth to political authoritarianism. By showing both in game theoretic and empirical terms how resource wealth can promote both democracy and authoritarianism, albeit through separate mechanisms, Dunning provides the first account that simultaneously explains the well-known cases of oil-based authoritarianism as well as the oft-overlooked resource-rich democracies. It is an analytical tour-de-force that will likely set the bar for future studies of resource politics, and through its innovative marriage of formal, statistical, and qualitative tools, for comparative politics more generally." -Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University, "Is oil good or bad for democracy? Read this book and find out why the wrangling is over. Social science meets comparative politics, at last." -James Robinson, Harvard University, "Thad Dunning has produced an outstanding book, founded on a theoretically-sophisticated re-evaluation of the popular and academic consensus linking oil and resource wealth to political authoritarianism. By showing - both in game theoretic and empirical terms - how resource wealth can promote both democracy and authoritarianism, albeit through separate mechanisms, Dunning provides the first account that simultaneously explains the well-known cases of oil-based authoritarianism as well as the oft-overlooked resource-rich democracies. It is an analytical tour-de-force that will likely set the bar for future studies of resource politics, and through its innovative marriage of formal, statistical, and qualitative tools, for comparative politics more generally." -Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University, "This innovative book brings a new level of sophistication to the study of resource wealth and democracy. Dunning makes a compelling argument using case studies, statistical analysis, and formal models that resource dependence will have sharply different effects on governance, depending on a country's prior level of inequality: where inequality is low, oil dependence may hinder democracy, but where it is high, oil dependence may foster democracy. This is a wonderfully nuanced analysis that will have a major impact on the field, and should be widely read." -Michael Ross, University of California, Los Angeles, "This innovative book brings a new level of sophistication to the study of resource wealth and democracy. Dunning makes a compelling argument - using case studies, statistical analysis, and formal models - that resource dependence will have sharply different effects on governance, depending on a country's prior level of inequality: where inequality is low, oil dependence may hinder democracy, but where it is high, oil dependence may foster democracy. This is a wonderfully nuanced analysis that will have a major impact on the field, and should be widely read." -Michael Ross, University of California, Los Angeles, "Crude Democracy shatters the widely-held view that natural resource wealth breeds authoritarianism. With a potent blend of in-depth fieldwork, formal models, statistical analysis, and small-N comparisons, Dunning carefully elucidates the contrasting political consequences of natural resources, showing that they can surprisingly have a democracy-promoting effect. The result is a work of first-class scholarship that anyone interested in development and democracy needs to read." -Richard Snyder, Brown University
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
321.8
Table Of Content
1. Does oil promote democracy?; 2. The foundations of rentier states; 3. Resource rents and the political regime; 4. Statistical tests on rents and the regime; 5. The democratic effect of rents; 6. Rentier democracy in comparative perspective; 7. Theoretical extensions; 8. Conclusion: whither the resource curse?
Synopsis
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., 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. Dunning builds and tests a theory that explains political variation across resource-rich states.
LC Classification Number
JC423.D824 2008
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