In recent years the term 'energy democracy'has become increasingly popular, especially in
the context of aspirations for a low-carbon transition that include wider socio-economic and …

Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more
frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be …

States that depend upon oil revenues appear to be less democratic than other states. Yet oil
presents a much larger problem for democracy: faced with the threats of oil depletion and …

We investigate whether mining affects local corruption in Africa. Several cross‐country
analyses report that natural resources have adverse effects on political institutions by …

A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and
democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run …

Levels of subnational democracy vary significantly within countries around the world.
Drawing on fiscal theories of the state, the author argues that this variance is often explained …

In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of
Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and …

Nontax revenues make up a substantial amount of government revenue around the world,
though scholars usually focus on individual sources of such revenue (for example, foreign …