What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael L Ro (0000-0003-0128-7907, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Michael L Ross (0000-0002-1306-7023, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095;) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 239-259 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-052213-040359 |
| OpenAlex | W3125670285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 338 |
| References cited | 155 |
Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,” meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's governance. There is now robust evidence that one type of mineral wealth, petroleum, has at least three harmful effects: It tends to make authoritarian regimes more durable, to increase certain types of corruption, and to help trigger violent conflict in low- and middle-income countries. Scholars have also made progress toward understanding the mechanisms that lead to these outcomes and the conditions that make them more likely. This essay reviews the evidence behind these claims, the debates over their validity, and some of the unresolved puzzles for future research
Affect (linguistics · Authoritarianism · Corporate governance · Curse · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Language change · Meaning (existential · Natural resource · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public economics · Resource (disambiguation · Resource curse · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Psychology
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Transforming asymmetrical conflicts over natural resources in the Global South
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Global Health
The Perils of International Capital
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War and local collective action in Sierra Leone
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The Varieties of Resource Experience
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Oil and Conflict
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Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
Oil Price Shocks, Income, and Democracy
Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Resources, conflict and governance
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The politics of profit in Tunisia
Foreign Aid and Regime Change
Oil and political survival
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Shaping the Saudi State
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A Rentier Theory of Subnational Regimes
The Perils of Unearned Income
The Political Resource Curse
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Diamonds, Blood, and Taxes
Deadly Combat over Natural Resources
Extreme Bounds of Democracy
The Construction of Grievance
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Regional Inequalities and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The price of wealth
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Toward an Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse
The Big Oil Change
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Single-Party Dominance
Conditioning the “Resource Curse
Refining the Oil Curse
Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa
On the Duration of Political Power in Africa
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| Unique citing works | 338 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 28,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2027 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 329 |