The Sociology of the Gulf Rentier Systems

Societies of Intermediaries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2108558
AutoresSteffen Hertog (0000-0002-6758-9564, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen52
Número2
Páginas282-318
Fecha de publicación2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417510000058
OpenAlexW2159890331
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas48

Theories about the politics and economics of resource-rich or 'rentier' states have been around for almost four decades now (Mahdavy 1970; Beblawi 1987; Chaudhry 1997; Humphreys et al. 2007). Political scientists and economists have argued that rents have a negative impact on levels of democracy (Luciani 1987; Ross 2001), on the quality of institutions (Chaudhry 1997; Isham et al. 2005), and on economic growth (Sachs and Warner 2001). Although much debate has been conducted over these macro-correlations, far less attention has been devoted to the causal mechanisms behind them. There is still no unified theory of rentier states, and the micro-foundations of rentier systems in particular have gone largely unexplored

Economic rent · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Religion, Society, and Development · Socioeconomic Development in MENA