Pauline Jones Luong

Oil Is Not a Curse (eBook, ePUB)

Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States

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Produktbeschreibung

This book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure from the conventional resource curse literature, which has treated ownership structure as a constant across time and space and has presumed that mineral-rich countries are incapable of either building or sustaining strong institutions - particularly fiscal regimes. The experience of the five petroleum-rich Soviet successor states (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) provides a clear challenge to both of these assumptions. Their respective developmental trajectories since independence demonstrate not only that ownership structure can vary even across countries that share the same institutional legacy but also that this variation helps to explain the divergence in their subsequent fiscal regimes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139035903
• Artikelnr.: 52955331

Autorenporträt

Pauline Jones Luong is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brown University. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Yale University. At Harvard University, where she received her doctorate, she was an Academy Scholar from 1998 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2002. Her primary research interests are institutional origin and change, identity and conflict, and the political economy of development. Her empirical work to date has focused on the former Soviet Union. She has published articles in several leading academic and policy journals, including the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Current History, Foreign Affairs, Politics and Society and Resources Policy. Her books include Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia and The Transformation of Central Asia. Funding from various sources has supported her research, including the National Science Foundation, the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation, the National Council on East European and Eurasian Research, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking the resource curse: ownership structure and institutions in
mineral rich states; 2. Fiscal regimes: taxation and expenditure in mineral
rich states; 3. State ownership with control versus private domestic
ownership; 4. Two version of rentierism: state ownership with control in
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; 5. Petroleum rents without rentierism:
domestic private ownership in the Russian Federation; 6. State ownership
without control versus private foreign ownership; 7. Eluding the
obsolescing bargain: state ownership without control in Azerbaijan; 8.
Revisiting the obsolescing bargain: foreign private ownership in
Kazakhstan; 9. Taking domestic politics seriously: explaining ownership
structure over mineral resources; 10. The myth of the resource curse.

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1. Rethinking the resource curse: ownership structure and institutions in mineral rich states; 2. Fiscal regimes: taxation and expenditure in mineral rich states; 3. State ownership with control versus private domestic ownership; 4. Two version of rentierism: state ownership with control in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; 5. Petroleum rents without rentierism: domestic private ownership in the Russian Federation; 6. State ownership without control versus private foreign ownership; 7. Eluding the obsolescing bargain: state ownership without control in Azerbaijan; 8. Revisiting the obsolescing bargain: foreign private ownership in Kazakhstan; 9. Taking domestic politics seriously: explaining ownership structure over mineral resources; 10. The myth of the resource curse.

Rezensionen

'The author's concluding chapter makes a reasonably, if not overwhelmingly persuasive case about why the resource curse hypothesis is a myth.' Gaurav Sharma, oilholicssynonymous.com