Hertog, Steffen 
ORCID: 0000-0002-6758-9564
(2010)
Defying the resource curse: explaining successful state-owned enterprises in rentier states.
World Politics, 62 (2).
pp. 261-301.
ISSN 0043-8871
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Abstract
The article explains how several Gulf rentier monarchies have managed to create highly profitable and well-managed state-owned enterprises (soes), confounding expectations of both general soe inefficiency and the particularly poor quality of rentier public sectors. It argues that a combination of two factors explains the outcome: the absence of a populist-mobilizational history and substantive regime autonomy in economic policy-making. The author concludes that it is necessary to rethink the commonly accepted generalizations both about rentier states and, arguably, about public sectors in the developing world.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Trustees of Princeton University |
| Divisions: | Government Middle East Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2010 16:56 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2025 03:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/29834 |
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