Refining the Oil Curse: Country-Level Evidence From Exogenous Variations in Resource Income

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1584-1610

  Liou, Yu Ming ^a   Musgrave, Paul ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

democracy; democratization; natural resources; oil; resource curse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906776040     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414013512607     Document Type: Article

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