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State hydrocarbon rents, authoritarian survival and the onset of democracy: evidence from a new dataset
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Abstract This article surveys the effects of state hydrocarbon rents - defined as government income from oil and natural gas - on authoritarian survival and the onset of democracy. We also examine the association of changing state hydrocarbon rents with state spending and taxation based on a new collection o... mehr
This article surveys the effects of state hydrocarbon rents - defined as government income from oil and natural gas - on authoritarian survival and the onset of democracy. We also examine the association of changing state hydrocarbon rents with state spending and taxation based on a new collection of historical data, the Global State Revenues and Expenditures dataset. Using these novel data, we provide evidence that increasing state rents from oil and gas hinder democratization by reducing citizens' tax burden. However, an increase in the oil and gas income flowing directly into state coffers does not appear to lower the average risk of ouster by rival authoritarian elites. We have found no evidence of the systematic distributional effects of state hydrocarbon income on regime survival.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
autoritäres System; Demokratisierung; Besteuerung; öffentliche Ausgaben; Steueraufkommen; öffentlicher Haushalt
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Öffentliche Finanzen und Finanzwissenschaft
Freie Schlagwörter
Rentier state theory; state spending; authoritarian survival
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 1-9
Zeitschriftentitel
Research and Politics, 3 (2016) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168016666110
ISSN
2053-1680
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung