Rentier States
Rent seekers in rentier states: When greed brings peace
... A number of empirical papers, pioneered by Collier and Hoe- er, show that the risk of civil war increases with natural resource endowment. 1 The main argument is that income from natural resources provides greedy rent ...
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Rent seekers in rentier states: When greed brings peace
... so-called rentier states manage to pacify opposition groups by handing out special ...the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability, and show how ...
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"Rentier States" or the Relationship between Regime Stability and Exercising Power in Post-Soviet Central Asia
... The rentier economy characteristically depends on some natural resource, although it could also rely on a different type of outside resource, for example, guest workers’ ...a rentier state, outside earnings ...
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Youth Unemployment and The Rentier Economy in Brunei: Lessons from Norway
... a rentier state whereby a job of high income and prestige is preferred over a job that can lead to personal and career development and ...a rentier state whereby the government redistributes the rent from ...
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The Rentier State/Resource Curse narrative and the state of the Arabian Gulf
... of rentier states also become infected by ...he states that for rentiers there is a, “marked absence of a productive outlook in their behaviour” and also that a break in the work-reward causation is ...
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RENTIER ECONOMY OF THE KURDISH REGION IN IRAQ AS A SOURCE OF BARRIERS FOR THE REGIONAL SECURITY SECTOR REFORM
... It is being largely replaced by the public sector and, to a lesser extent, by many foreign humanitarian organisations. Sustainability of the public sector is necessary to deal with uncertain and volatile transfers of ...
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Neo-rentier theory : the case of Saudi Arabia (1950-2000)
... Second, rentier theory sidesteps the era of ...questions rentier theory offers no explicit ...Third, rentier theory adopts a narrow view of economic resources, limiting the usage of oil resources to ...
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The Electricity Consumption in a Rentier State: Do Institutions Matter?
... economies, people have a little influence over political class and the state is free from the need to extract income from taxes on the domestic economy. Since resource rents highlight the need to levy taxes against the ...
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The Rentier State at Work: Comparative Experiences of the Resource Curse in East Asia and the Pacific
... of rentier state are characterised by their limited credibility of intertemporal ...patrimonial rentier states, extractive capacity is thus low because there is little guarantee of property rights, ...
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The crisis in Greece: the semi-rentier state hypothesis
... expanding rentier state theory at three ...the rentier-state theory beyond the Middle East, trying to explain a wider range of maladies in Africa, Latin America and the former Soviet Union (Yates, 1996, ...
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Negative Correlation Between Economic Structure of Rentier State and Non-Democratization (Case Study: Saudi Arabia)
... to rentier state special political economy ...of states not declination to extend of freedoms in their political system and try to satisfy people by offer services and economic activities rely to oil ...
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Dutch Disease, Rentier State, and Resource Curse: A Characteristic Triangle and Ultra Challenge in the Iranian Economy
... One Symptom of Dutch Disease is the increase in the share of government expenditure in oil revenues. Here we investigate the trend of this variable. It is noted that this index has major fluctuations and is highly ...
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The merchant elite and parliamentary politics in Kuwait: The dynamics of business political participation in a rentier state
... The merchant elite and parliamentary politics in Kuwait The dynamics of business political participation in a rentier state Anastasia Nosova A thesis submitted to the Department of Government of the L[.] ...
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UNITED STATES and the States of California and Texas
... 29 states and the District of Columbia had established binding RPS ...other states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Vermont) have non- binding goals for adoption of renewable energy instead ...
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How To Help The States Of The United States
... Estimation uses the Newey-West (MN/W) estimator for standard errors robust to heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. * Standard errors within parentheses[r] ...
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States of nature and the nature of states
... Once the state space is fixed, the choice set may be defined. In Schmeidler and Wakker (1987); Karni and Schmeidler (1991); and Karni and Vierø (2013, 2015a, 2015b), the choice space consists of the original basic ...
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Inherited vs self-made wealth: Theory & evidence from a rentier society (Paris 1872–1927)
... For this subsample of decedents, we collected in the archives – in addition to the basic variables described above – very detailed variables on asset composition, separate vs community[r] ...
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Explaining the Violent Conflicts in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: Is the Rentier State Theory and the Resource-curse Thesis Relevant?
... the rentier state was first mentioned in the study of patterns and problems of economic development in pre-revolutionary Iran by Hossein Mahdavi in ...more States in the Arab world, and popularised by Hazem ...
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Healthcare Reform in the United States: The Role of the States
... LAN G. R AYMOND , B LUE C ROSS B LUE S HIELD OF M ASS . F OUND . ET AL ., T HE 2006 M ASSACHUSETTS H EALTH C ARE R EFORM L AW : P ROGRESS AND C HALLENGES A FTER O NE Y EAR OF I MPLEMENTATION 4 (2007), available at ...
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Small States, Large Unitary States and Federations
... Small-state governments meet the demands of voters with differing preferences and, therefore, in the absence of spillover effects, are strictly preferred to large unitary states by voters in all states ...
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