Oil, Democracy, and Context

@article{Ahmadov2014OilDA,
  title={Oil, Democracy, and Context},
  author={Anar K. Ahmadov},
  journal={Comparative Political Studies},
  year={2014},
  volume={47},
  pages={1238 - 1267}
}
  • Anar K. Ahmadov
  • Published 1 August 2014
  • Political Science
  • Comparative Political Studies
A considerable debate precludes drawing conclusions about oil’s effect on democracy. This article challenges this stalemate by significantly expanding the scope of the previous research and using meta-regression analysis to examine the integrated results of extant scholarship. While the results suggest a nontrivial negative association between oil and democracy across the globe, they also indicate a notable variation in this relationship across world regions and institutional contexts. A… 
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