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Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World
- B. Smith
- Political Science
- 1 April 2004
The global oil market and its associated booms and busts have generated a large literature in political science. One contention in this literature is that political instability is a near-certain,…
Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca
- B. Smith
- Political Science
- 1 July 2009
The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. At every level, political intermediaries negotiated, resisted,…
The Origins of Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Experts and the Marketing of Political Interests
- B. Smith
- Political Science
- 1 May 2008
This article argues that, in contrast with prevalent choice-theoretic accounts of institutional origins in new democracies, the passage of Indonesia’s regional autonomy laws in 1999 took place…
The wrong kind of crisis: Why oil booms and busts rarely lead to authoritarian breakdown
- B. Smith
- Political Science
- 1 December 2006
Economic crisis has been a central catalyst to Third Wave democratic transitions by contributing to authoritarian breakdown, yet crises in oil-exporting states have generally failed to catalyze such…
Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
- B. Smith
- Political Science
- 1 May 2021
Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968
- P. Gillingham, B. Smith
- Political Science
- 2 April 2014
Preface / Paul Gillingham vii Acknowledgments xv Glossary of Institutions and Acronyms xvii Introduction: The Paradoxes of Revolution / Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith 1 High and Low Politics…
Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976
- B. Smith
- Political Science
- 1 October 2018
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression. As Benjamin T. Smith demonstrates in this…
The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis
- R. Grandmaison, Nathaniel Morris, B. Smith
- Political ScienceJournal of Illicit Economies and Development
- 29 November 2019
For decades, farmers in the most marginalised regions of Mexico have depended for survival on the illicit cultivation of opium poppy for the US heroin market. In 2017 they could earn up to 20,000…
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur
- B. Smith
- Political Science
- 1 November 2013
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