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Resources and the political economy of state fragility in conflict states: Iraq and Somalia

This paper studies state failure and governance in two conflict-states in the Middle East: Iraq and Somalia. Iraq is currently undergoing a social experiment under which a new form of government is being constructed after the passage of autocratic rule. The government envisaged is a consociational democratic state designed a priori as a political mechanism for the redistribution of resources, mainly oil. Somalia represents a stateless society or anarchy. The paper argues that in resource-rich countries such as Iraq, the consociational project leads to an Olson-type rent-seeking confessional behaviour that hampers economic growth and development. The rent-seeking behaviour in Iraq is fuelling the insurgency that perceives the consociational system as a grabbing.

ISBN
978-92-9230-081-4
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2008/35

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Asia including Middle East
Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: Asia including Middle East
Thema
fragile states
political economy
resources
Politischer Konflikt
Staatsversagen
Entwicklung
Rohstoffressourcen
Rent Seeking
Irak
Somalia

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dibeh, Ghassan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dibeh, Ghassan
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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