Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes

by Thad Dunning

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521730759
• ISBN13: 9780521730754
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"