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Rethinking the Resource Curse

Benjamin Smith author David Waldner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Apr '21

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Documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse.

Outlines the source of disagreement about a resource curse, suggests strategies to address them, and shows how they produce insights about the politics of resource wealth.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.

ISBN: 9781108702416

Dimensions: 229mm x 150mm x 6mm

Weight: 150g

75 pages