02374nam a22003618a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002600224082001200250100003500262245013000297264005200427300005900479336002600538337002600564338003600590490004600626500007300672520105000745650003901795700003001834776003501864830004701899856004701946999001901993CR9780511779435UkCbUP20171019112332.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100519s2010||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511779435 (ebook)  z9780521765770 (hardback)  z9780521148085 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aHD9575.S65 bJ66 201000a3332221 aJones Luong, Pauline,eauthor.10aOil Is Not a Curse :bOwnership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States /cPauline Jones Luong, Erika Weinthal. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2010.  a1 online resource (446 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThis book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure from the conventional resource curse literature, which has treated ownership structure as a constant across time and space and has presumed that mineral-rich countries are incapable of either building or sustaining strong institutions - particularly fiscal regimes. The experience of the five petroleum-rich Soviet successor states (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) provides a clear challenge to both of these assumptions. Their respective developmental trajectories since independence demonstrate not only that ownership structure can vary even across countries that share the same institutional legacy but also that this variation helps to explain the divergence in their subsequent fiscal regimes. 0aCommonwealth of Independent States1 aWeinthal, Erika,eauthor.08iPrint version: z9780521765770 0aCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779435  c224914d224914