Natural Resource Diversity and Democracy*

Economic Papers

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 366-375

  Smart, Mike ^a  

^a LECG Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

autocracy; democratic institutions; F50; Herfindahl Hirschman Index; oil; primary exports; Q34; resource curse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892032011     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2010.00046.x     Document Type: Article

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