Oil is not a curse : ownership structure and institutions in Soviet successor states / Pauline Jones Luong and Erika Weinthal.

By:

Jones, Pauline (Professor of political science) [author.]

Contributor(s):

Weinthal, Erika [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in comparative politicsPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781139040594
1139040596
9781139042130
1139042130
9781139041362
1139041363
9780511779435
0511779437

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Oil is not a curse.DDC classification:

333 22

LOC classification:

HD9575.S65 J66 2010eb

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Contents:

Rethinking the resource curse : ownership structure and institutions in mineral rich states -- Why fiscal regimes : taxation and expenditure in mineral rich states -- State ownership with control versus private domestic ownership -- Two version of rentierism : state ownership with control in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -- Petroleum rents without rentierism : domestic private ownership in the Russian Federation -- State ownership without control versus private foreign ownership -- Eluding the obsolescing bargain : state ownership without control in Azerbaijan -- Revisiting the obsolescing bargain : foreign private ownership in Kazakhstan -- Taking domestic politics seriously : explaining the structure of ownership over mineral resources -- The myth of the resource curse.

Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher

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"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"--Provided by publisher