Board #44 - The Effects of Oil Demand Shocks on the Stability of Authoritarian Petrostates

• In Event: 75-300 - Poster Session: Challenges to the Legitimacy of Authoritarian Governments

Brief Overview

This research employs a most-similar systems case study approach to evaluate the short and long-term effects of the 2014 international negative oil price shock on the social stability and economic outlook of authoritarian MENA petrostates.

Author

• Benjamin Cohen, University of Pennsylvania