The First Law of Petropolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9725337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Romain Wacziarg (0000-0002-2394-7593, National Bureau of Economic Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 316 |
| Pages | 641-657 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2011.00902.x |
| OpenAlex | W2055984252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 7 |
We examine empirically the relationship between crude oil prices and the ebb and flow of democratic institutions, in order to test the hypothesis that high oil prices undermine democracy and sustain autocracy. We use a variety of time series and panel data methods over a wide range of country subsamples and time periods, finding strictly no evidence in favour of this so‐called ‘First Law of Petropolitics’ (Friedman 2006)
Autocracy · Democracy · Econometrics · Economics · Order (exchange) · Panel data · Political science · Politics · Statistics · Variety (cybernetics) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Law · Market Dynamics and Volatility · Mathematics · Natural Resources and Economic Development
Élites políticas y represión estatal en Turkmenistán
Perception, petroleum, and power
Oil and Gas Rents and Civilian Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, 1990–2004
Assessing Whether Oil Dependency in Venezuela Contributes to National Instability
State intervention in Kazakhstan's energy sector
A common vision of energy risk? Energy securitisation and company perceptions of risk in the EU
Russian lobbying in the United States
Energy security and shifting modes of governance
Ending poverty in M ongolia
Why some countries are immune from the resource curse
Origins and Persistence of Economic Inequality
Oil, Natural Gas, and Intrastate Conflict
Varieties of authoritarianism matter
Oil Price Shocks, Income, and Democracy
The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government
The First Law of Petropolitics
Vị Trí Không Giáp Biển
The Institutions Curse
The Natural Resource Curse
Can’t buy me legitimacy’
On the timing of political regime changes in resource-dependent economies
Introduction
The extractive industries and development
Distributional Bargaining and the Speed of Structural Change in the Petroleum Exporting Labor Surplus Economies
Oil prices and interstate conflict
Taxation, non-tax revenue and democracy
Fire in Cairo”
Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
War and Relatedness
Do Natural Resources Influence Who Comes to Power, and How
Wage Bargaining, Inequality, and the Dutch Disease
What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse
The resource curse and child mortality, 1961-2011
The New Political Economy of Natural Resources in Latin America
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |