Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring
The “oil curse thesis” links a country’s oil largesse inter alia to the durability of its authoritarian regime. And it contends that abundant oil revenues enable autocrats to stymie democratic transition by obviating taxation from citizens, buying off their political acquiescence, bolstering the rep...
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=5407003 |
| Source: | Revista española de ciencia política, ISSN 1575-6548, Nº 40, 2016, pags. 63-89 |
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