The wages of oil
Subtitle: Parliaments and economic development in Kuwait and the UAE
By: Michael Herb
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780801453366
Subjects: Democratization; Politics and government; Petroleum industry and trade; Economic development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Labor markets and class politics; title: Participation; title: Explaining Kuwaiti exceptionalism; title: The consequences of absolutism; title: The consequences of participation; title: What resource curse?; title: Conclusion : dilemmas of development and democracy in the Gulf.