The Economics of Petro-Authoritarianism: Post-Soviet Transitions and Democratization

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

Brief Overview

Resource abundance
has been deemed the primary source of the power for such regimes, and thus
the recent decline in the market value of oil also grew the hope that autocracies
would become weaker.

Author

• Gubad Ibadoghlu, Rutgers University