Rethinking the resource curse / Benjamin Smith, David Waldner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Benjamin (Assistant professor), author.

Waldner, David, author.

Series:

Elements in the politics of development 2515-1584.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the politics of development, 2515-1584

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resource curse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Summary:

This Element documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse, diagnoses its sources, and directs scholarly attention towards what the authors believe will be more fruitful avenues of future research. In the scholarship to date, there is substantial regional heterogeneity and substantial evidence denying the existence of a political resource curse. This dissensus is located in theory, measure, and research design, especially regarding measurement error and endogenous selection. The work then turns to strategies for reconnecting research on resource politics to the broader literature on democratic development. Finally, the results of the authors' own research is presented, showing that a set of historically contingent events in the Middle East and North Africa are at the root of what has been mistaken for a global political resource curse.

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ISBN:

9781108776837

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