Varieties of authoritarianism matter: Elite fragmentation,natural resources and economic growth |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Economic Research Institute Far East Branch Russian Academy of Science, Russia;2. Ludwig-Maxilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany;3. International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia;1. Department of Environmental Economics and Management, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;2. Department of Environmental Economics and Management and the Center for Agricultural Economic Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;1. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Karnataka, 580011, India;2. Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208016, India |
| |
| Abstract: | A broad literature suggests that political regimes matter for the growth effect of natural resources. However, while several studies have concentrated on the difference between democracies and autocracies in this respect, an important topic overlooked so far is the differences between varieties of authoritarian regimes. This study uses the political variation across sub-national regions of the Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin to understand how differences in the extent of elite fragmentation in autocracies affects the influence of resource abundance on economic growth in the short run. We find that polities with fragmented elites underperform those with consolidated elites and link this effect to higher costs of fights over rents due to higher political uncertainty. |
| |
| Keywords: | Resource curse Varieties of authoritarian regimes Russian regions Rent-seeking D72 Q34 P28 |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
