Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes

by Thad Dunning

Book Overview

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521730759
• ISBN13: 9780521730754
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"