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State hydrocarbon rents, authoritarian survival and the onset of democracy: evidence from a new dataset
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Abstract This article surveys the effects of state hydrocarbon rents - defined as government income from oil and natural gas - on authoritarian survival and the onset of democracy. We also examine the association of changing state hydrocarbon rents with state spending and taxation based on a new collection o... view more
This article surveys the effects of state hydrocarbon rents - defined as government income from oil and natural gas - on authoritarian survival and the onset of democracy. We also examine the association of changing state hydrocarbon rents with state spending and taxation based on a new collection of historical data, the Global State Revenues and Expenditures dataset. Using these novel data, we provide evidence that increasing state rents from oil and gas hinder democratization by reducing citizens' tax burden. However, an increase in the oil and gas income flowing directly into state coffers does not appear to lower the average risk of ouster by rival authoritarian elites. We have found no evidence of the systematic distributional effects of state hydrocarbon income on regime survival.... view less
Keywords
authoritarian system; democratization; taxation; public expenditures; tax revenue; public budget
Classification
Political System, Constitution, Government
Public Finance
Free Keywords
Rentier state theory; state spending; authoritarian survival
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 1-9
Journal
Research and Politics, 3 (2016) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168016666110
ISSN
2053-1680
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works