Natural resources, aid, and democratization: A best-case scenario

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The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid (2010, background): “For example, Morrison (2007, 2009) argues that nontax revenue allows authoritarian governments to reduce the “demand for democracy” by increasing redistributive transfers to poor citizens who might otherwise press for democratization.”
The Politics of the Resource Curse: A Review (2020, unknown): “…effect (e.g., Crystal, 1990; Yates, 1996; Fish, 2005; Kendall-Taylor, 2012). native set of approaches explored formally by Robinson et al. (2006), Morrison (2007), and Caselli and Cunningham (2009), and informally by Fish (2005) suggests that resources affect the value that leaders place on…”
The Quality of Political Institutions and the Curse of Natural Resources (2011, unknown): “A noticeable exception is Morrison (2007) who argues that even in an ideal scenario where natural resources are funneled away from nondemocratic governments toward the citizens, natural resources would still hinder democratization.”
Does foreign aid distort incentives and hurt growth? Theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries (2008, background): “Morrison (2007) studies how natural resources and aid affect democracy and income distribution.”
Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, background): “Such a view is explicitly found in the selectorate theory of politics due to de Mesquita et al. (2003), also echoed elsewhere (e.g., Morrison, 2007; Djankov et al., 2008; de Mesquita and Smith, 2013).”