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Oil, Nontax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability
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Nontax revenues make up a substantial amount of government revenue around the world, though scholars usually focus on individual sources of such revenue (for example, foreign aid and state-owned oil companies). Using a theory of regime change that builds on recent models of the redistributional foundations of dictatorships and democracies, I generate hypotheses regarding all nontax revenue and regime stability. I argue that an increase in nontax revenue should be associated with less taxation of elites in democracies, more social spending in dictatorships, and more stability for both regime types. I find support for all three of these hypotheses in a cross-sectional time-series analysis, covering all countries and years for which the necessary data are available. Significantly, I show that the particular source of nontax revenue does not make a difference: they all act similarly with regard to regime stability and the causal mechanisms.
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- Authors
- Morrison, K. M.
- Venue
- International Organization
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2009-01
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 107-138
- ISSN
- 0020-8183 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-5088
- OpenAlex
- W2132482742
- Cited by
- 594
- References
- 121
- FWCI
- 76.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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