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Oil Booms and Petro-States
Terry Lynn Karl
出版
University of California Press
, 1997-10-10
主題
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Business & Economics / Industries / General
Business & Economics / Industries / Energy
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Social Science / Sociology / General
Technology & Engineering / Petroleum
ISBN
0520207726
9780520207721
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VaQwDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The Paradox of Plenty
explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically innovative, this book illuminates the manifold factors—economic, political, and social—that determine the nature of the oil state, from the coherence of public bureaucracies, to the degree of centralization, to patterns of policy-making.
Karl contends that oil countries, while seemingly disparate, are characterized by similar social classes and patterns of collective action. In these countries, dependence on petroleum leads to disproportionate fiscal reliance on petrodollars and public spending, at the expense of statecraft. Oil booms, which create the illusion of prosperity and development, actually destabilize regimes by reinforcing oil-based interests and further weakening state capacity.
Karl's incisive investigation unites structural and choice-based approaches by illuminating how decisions of policymakers are embedded in institutions interacting with domestic and international markets. This approach—which Karl dubs "structured contingency"—uses a state's leading sector as the starting point for identifying a range of decision-making choices, and ends by examining the dynamics of the state itself.