TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herb,Michael
TI  - The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE
SN  - 9780801454691
AV  - JQ1848.A91 
U1  - 330.95357 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Democratization -- Kuwait
KW  - Democratization -- United Arab Emirates
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Kuwait
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- United Arab Emirates
KW  - Economic development -- Political aspects -- Kuwait
KW  - Economic development -- Political aspects -- United Arab Emirates
KW  - Kuwait -- Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - The Wages of Oil -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Two Models -- 1. Labor Markets and Class Politics -- 2. Participation -- 3. Explaining Kuwaiti Exceptionalism -- 4. The Consequences of Absolutism -- 5. The Consequences of Participation -- 6. What Resource Curse? -- Dilemmas of Development and Democracy in the Gulf -- References -- Index
N2  - Michael Herb provides a robust framework for thinking about the future of the Gulf monarchies by contrasting Kuwait and the UAE
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138682
ER  -