Oil and democracy in Russia
By: Daniel Treisman.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15667; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15667.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Russia is often considered a perfect example of the so-called "resource curse"-the argument that natural resource wealth tends to undermine democracy.  Given high oil prices, some observers see the country as virtually condemned to authoritarian government for the foreseeable future.  Reexamining various data, I show that such fears are exaggerated.  Evidence from around the world suggests that for countries like Russia with an established oil industry, even large increases in the scale of mineral incomes have only a minor effect on the political regime.  In addition, Russia-a country with an industrialized economy, a highly educated, urbanized population, and an oil sector that remains majority private-owned-is unlikely to be susceptible to most of the hypothesized pernicious effects of resource dependence"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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