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List of Figures | p. xi |
List of Tables | p. xiii |
Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Does Oil Promote Democracy? | p. 1 |
The Authoritarian and Democratic Effects of Natural Resources | p. 5 |
Explaining Variation | p. 15 |
Method and Plan of the Book | p. 25 |
The Foundations of Rentier States | p. 37 |
Sources of Rents | p. 39 |
Fiscal Effects: Natural Resources and Taxation | p. 45 |
Toward the Political Effects of Rents | p. 52 |
Resource Rents and the Political Regime | p. 61 |
A Model of Coups against Democracy | p. 64 |
A Model of Democratization | p. 88 |
Discussion and Interpretation | p. 100 |
Statistical Tests on Rents and the Regime | p. 107 |
Concepts and Measures | p. 111 |
Rents and the Level of Democracy | p. 121 |
Democratic Transitions and Breakdowns | p. 136 |
Assessing the Large-N Evidence | p. 140 |
The Democratic Effect of Rents | p. 148 |
Case Selection: Probing the Mechanisms | p. 149 |
Venezuela: The Rise and Demise of Rentier Democracy | p. 152 |
Rentier Democracy in Comparative Perspective | p. 210 |
Chile: Class Conflict in a Rentier Democracy | p. 213 |
Bolivia: Rents, Revolution, and Democracy | p. 231 |
Ecuador: Oil Booms and Democratization | p. 253 |
Botswana: An African Anomaly | p. 258 |
Theoretical Extensions | p. 268 |
Revenue Volatility | p. 269 |
The Dutch Disease | p. 272 |
Resource Ownership | p. 274 |
Conclusion: Whither the Resource Curse? | p. 278 |
Crude Democracies and Crude Autocracies | p. 279 |
Resources and Democracy: A Normative Coda | p. 289 |
Construction of the Simulations | p. 293 |
Bibliography | p. 297 |
Index | p. 317 |
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