Natural-Resource Wealth and the Survival of Autocracy

By Jay Ulfelder. 2007

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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The Politics of the Resource Curse: A Review (2020, unknown): “…found that windfall-like federal transfers reduced the education levels of mayoral candidates, and increased the incidence of cor- 11See Smith (2004), Ulfelder (2007), Tsui (2011), Bueno de Mesquita and Smith (2010), Cabrales and Hauk (2011), Caselli and Tesei (2011), Al-Ubaydli (2012), and Wiens,…”
Oil, Nontax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability (2009, background): “…1976; and Shambayati 1994+ In addition, there are subtle differences in the hypothesized effects of oil revenues+ Some ~see, for example, Ross 2001; and Ulfelder 2007! argue that oil bolsters authoritarianism, whereas others ~for example, Smith 2004! suggest that it stabilizes all regimes+ 2+…”
The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions (2012, background): “Arezki, Rabah, and Frederick van der Ploeg, "Do Natural Resources Depress Income Per Capita?"”
Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival (2015, background): “…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).”
Oil and political survival (2013, methodology): “Smith (2004) and Ulfelder (2007) both analyze the association between natural resource wealth and political survival.”
The Big Oil Change (2014, background): “…the resource curse hypothesis, which is that when autocratic states collect a lot of oil revenues, they become less likely to transit to democracy (e.g., Andersen & Aslaksen, 2013; Clark, Poast, & Weins, 2012; Morrison, 2009; Papaioannou & Siourounis, 2008; Ross, 2009; Smith, 2004; Ulfelder, 2007).”
A Rentier Theory of Subnational Regimes: Fiscal Federalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in the Argentine Provinces (2010, background): “42 Ulfelder 2007, 997.”
Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability (2016, unknown): “An important literature in political science studies the relationship between resource abundance and democratic/ autocratic institutions using predominantly comparative case studies or cross-country variation (Ross, 2001a, 2001b, 2009; Ulfelder, 2007; Collier & Hoeffler, 2009; Alexeev & Conrad, 2009”