Oil and the duration of dictatorships

Public Choice

Volumn 148, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 505-530

  Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo ^a   Oberhofer, Harald ^b   Raschky, Paul A ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dictatorship; Duration; Natural resources; Political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052388811     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-010-9671-0     Document Type: Article

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