Looking at most of the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and African countries, people tend to claim that natural resource production promotes authoritarianism. These natural resources can be energy related like oil and natural gas or valuables like gold and diamond. Through forming rentier ties, using the resource money to buy tools for repressing the population, the leaders tend to keep their population under control, uneducated, and without political rights.
Conscious Political Scientist
Personal notes on comparative politics, resource curse, oil, natural gas, democratization, development, or less.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Do Natural Resources Always Promote Authoritarianism?
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Chile,
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gold,
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Thad Dunning,
Venezuela
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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