Hertog, Steffen (2010) The sociology of the Gulf rentier systems: societies of intermediaries. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 52 (2). pp. 282-318. ISSN 0010-4175
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Abstract
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.
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Cambridge University Press |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Government Research centres and groups > Middle East Centre |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2010 16:55 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29833/ |
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