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The Wages of Oil : Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801454691
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Wages of OilDDC classification:
  • 330.95357
LOC classification:
  • JQ1848.A91
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Michael Herb provides a robust framework for thinking about the future of the Gulf monarchies by contrasting Kuwait and the UAE.
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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.

Michael Herb provides a robust framework for thinking about the future of the Gulf monarchies by contrasting Kuwait and the UAE.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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