The Perils of Unearned Income

By Alastair Smith. Journal of Politics, 2008

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Revisiting the Resource Curse: Natural Disasters, the Price of Oil, and Democracy (2011, methodology): “…Wantchekon 2004; and Jensen and Wantchekon 2004+ 6+ Wantchekon 2004, 2+ 7+ See Boix 2003; and Acemoglu and Robinson 2001+ 8+ See Dunning 2008; and Smith 2008+ 9+ Tsui forthcoming+ Natural Disasters, the Price of Oil, and Democracy 509 between 1968–2002+10 I use the 2005 World Development…”
Oil, Nontax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability (2009, background): “…breaking a possible “modernization” link between economic development and democratization ~Ross 1999!+ 5+ See, for example, Bräutigam 2000; Moore 1998; Smith 2008; and Therkildsen 2002+ It is interesting to note in this context that Hussein Mahdavy’s ~1970, 428! original definition of a…”
The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions (2013, background): “The second hypothesis is pessimistic (see, for instance, Bueno de Mesquita and Smith 2009; Smith 2008; Djankov, Montalvo, and Reynal-Querol 2008; Rajan and Subramanian 2007; Bräutigam and Knack 2004; Bauer 2000).”
Political Survival and Endogenous Institutional Change (2009, background): “Smith (2008) provides a formal proof of the second case in which incumbents must take seriously the threat of revolution or mass movement.”
The Perils of Unearned Foreign Income: Aid, Remittances, and Government Survival (2012, background): “…between the provision of patronage and welfare goods across democracies and autocracies is operationalized in the formal model and empirically tested. government’s “winning coalition” and can worsen aggregate welfare in authoritarian countries (Bueno de Mesquita and Smith 2009, 2010; Smith 2008).”
Foreign Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent (2011, unknown): “Other studies have argued that the structure of the polity within recipients helps determine the impact of non-tax resources on the likelihood of regime survival (Bueno de Mesquita & Smith, 2010; Smith, 2008; Wright, 2009).”