There is little consensus on whether foreign aid can reliably increase economic growth in
recipient countries. We review the literature on aid allocation and provide new evidence …

This article uncovers a new mechanism linking oil wealth to autocratic regime survival: the
investigation tests whether increases in oil wealth improve the survival of autocracies by …

This Element documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource
curse, diagnoses its sources, and directs scholarly attention towards what the authors …

The differentiation in the impact of resources on economic growth is often explained by the
specifics of institutional factors. The aim of this paper is to investigate how sub-national …

Political scientists frequently use qualitative evidence to support or evaluate the empirical
applicability of formal models. Despite this widespread practice, neither the qualitative …

This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela,
framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture …

Living the High Life in Minsk h Life k Page 1 Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and
Belarus’ Impending Crisis Living the High Life in Minsk h Life k Margarita M. Balmaceda Living …

Over the past half-century, production from vast reserves of hydrocarbons has transformed
the once destitute Persian Gulf monarchies into developed states with comfortable lifestyles …

How does exile affect online dissent? By internationalizing activists' networks and removing
them from day-to-day life under the regime, we argue that exile fundamentally alters activists' …

This dissertation argues that in order to explain the political stability of Qatar amid the region-
wide tumult of the Arab Spring, we must go beyond classic rentier state explanations of …