Why do some oil exporters experience civil war but others do not?: Investigating the conditional effects of oil

European Political Science Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 549-574

  Basedau, Matthias ^a   Richter, Thomas ^a  

^a GIGA GERMAN INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL AND AREA STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

civil war; csQCA; ethnic exclusion; oil; political institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911453265     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773913000234     Document Type: Article

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