Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World

By B. Smith. 2004

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The political economy of the resource curse : a literature survey (2006, background): “In a study of the effects of oil dependence on regime failure and conflict in 107 developing countries between 1960 and 1999, Smith (2004), for instance, found that oil wealth is associated with lower levels of civil war and anti-state protest.”
Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival (2015, methodology): “…empirical literature on the resource curse does not separate cross-national correla- tions (between-country effects) from variation within countries (within-country effects) (e.g., Ross 2001; Smith 2004; Jensen and Wantchekon 2004; Ulfelder 2007; Morrison 2009; Bueno de Mesquita and Smith 2010).”
Testing the neocon agenda: Democracy in resource-rich societies (2009, background): “While in the long run democracy is itself liable to be endogenous to resource rents, Smith (2004) plausibly suggests that because institutions usually pre-exist resource discoveries, the effects of the rents are likely to be dependent upon this prior institutional variation.”