Oil and Democracy During the Third Wave: Confronting an Observational Data Curse

• In Event: Economic conditions, resource wealth, and democracy

Brief Overview

We combine theoretical insights from the resource curse and Third Wave democratization literatures to explain why oil-rich countries should be distinctly less democratic than oil-poor countries only when facing low international democratic pressure.

Authors

• Paasha Mahdavi, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Jack Paine, University of Rochester