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- Title
The Political Resource Curse: An Empirical Re-evaluation.
- Authors
Wiens, David; Poast, Paul; Clark, William Roberts
- Abstract
Extant theoretical work on the political resource curse implies that dependence on resource revenues should decrease autocracies’ likelihood of democratizing but not necessarily affect democracies’ chances of survival. Yet most previous empirical studies estimate models that are ill-suited to address this claim. We improve upon previous studies, estimating a dynamic logit model using data from 166 countries, covering the period from 1816 to 2006. We find that an increase in resource dependence decreases an autocracy’s likelihood of being democratic over both the short term and long term but has no appreciable effect on democracies’ likelihood of persisting.
- Subjects
RESOURCE curse; DEMOCRATIZATION; POLITICAL science research; NATURAL resources &; politics; AUTHORITARIANISM; CROSS-cultural studies; GOVERNMENT revenue; DYNAMIC models
- Publication
Political Research Quarterly, 2014, Vol 67, Issue 4, p783
- ISSN
1065-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1065912914543836