TY - BOOK ID - 7079923 TI - Crude democracy : natural resource wealth and political regimes PY - 2008 SN - 9780521730754 9780521515009 9780511510052 9780511457449 0511457448 0511456131 9780511456138 0511453426 9780511453427 0521515009 0521730759 0511510055 110719038X 1281944769 9786611944766 0511454384 0511455429 9781281944764 6611944761 9780511454387 9780511455421 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Democracy KW - Petroleum industry and trade KW - Natural resources KW - Economic aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Petroleum KW - Economic aspects. KW - Political aspects. KW - National resources KW - Resources, Natural KW - Resource-based communities KW - Resource curse KW - Coal-oil KW - Crude oil KW - Oil KW - Caustobioliths KW - Mineral oils KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Democracy - Economic aspects KW - Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects KW - Natural resources - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7079923 AB - 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 modeling as well as detailed country case studies and drawing on fieldwork in Latin America and Africa, this book builds and tests a theory that explains political variation across resource-rich states. It will be read by scholars studying the political effects of natural resource wealth in many regions, as well as by those interested in the emergence and persistence of democratic regimes. ER -