Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring
<p>The “oil curse thesis” links a country’s oil largesse inter alia to the durability of its authoritarian regime. And it contends that abundant oil revenues enable autocrats to stymie democratic transition by obviating taxation from citizens, buying off their political acquiescence, bolsterin...
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| author | Lala Muradova Huseynova |
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| description | <p>The “oil curse thesis” links a country’s oil largesse inter alia to the durability of its authoritarian regime. And it contends that abundant oil revenues enable autocrats to stymie democratic transition by obviating taxation from citizens, buying off their political acquiescence, bolstering the repressive apparatus and thwarting the formation of civil society. This paper revisits the relevant literature by qualitatively testing its predictions on an in-depth case study of the Algerian regime in the face of the political crisis and riots of 2011. Going beyond the deterministic argument on “oil wealth-authoritarianism”, it carefully examines the strategic interaction between country-specific factors and oil wealth and studies how the confluence of these factors has shaped the survival of the authoritarian regime in Algeria since 2011.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-159cb45a8b394c488b31db6a8a6cb06c2022-12-22T01:45:11ZengAsociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA)Revista Española de Ciencia Política1575-65482173-98702016-03-0104031373Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab SpringLala Muradova Huseynova0UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain<p>The “oil curse thesis” links a country’s oil largesse inter alia to the durability of its authoritarian regime. And it contends that abundant oil revenues enable autocrats to stymie democratic transition by obviating taxation from citizens, buying off their political acquiescence, bolstering the repressive apparatus and thwarting the formation of civil society. This paper revisits the relevant literature by qualitatively testing its predictions on an in-depth case study of the Algerian regime in the face of the political crisis and riots of 2011. Going beyond the deterministic argument on “oil wealth-authoritarianism”, it carefully examines the strategic interaction between country-specific factors and oil wealth and studies how the confluence of these factors has shaped the survival of the authoritarian regime in Algeria since 2011.</p>https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/recp/article/view/39641riqueza petrolíferaautoritarismoestado rentistademocraciaArgeliaPrimavera Árabeinstitucioneseconomía política |
| spellingShingle | Lala Muradova Huseynova Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring Revista Española de Ciencia Política riqueza petrolífera autoritarismo estado rentista democracia Argelia Primavera Árabe instituciones economía política |
| title | Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring |
| title_full | Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring |
| title_fullStr | Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring |
| title_short | Oil wealth and authoritarianism: Algeria in the Arab Spring |
| title_sort | oil wealth and authoritarianism algeria in the arab spring |
| topic | riqueza petrolífera autoritarismo estado rentista democracia Argelia Primavera Árabe instituciones economía política |
| url | https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/recp/article/view/39641 |
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