Women Also Know Stuff About Resource Politics

I’m leaving this post as a live marker of citations as (1) a public good for other researchers on resource politics (particularly oil/gas) and (2) a private good for me.

Many prominent researchers on the role of resources in political development and institutions are men, such as Michael L. Ross, Victor Menaldo, Jeff Colgan, and Jeffrey Sachs. But many more are women. This post stands as a statement about why researchers cant say that women don’t do resource politics. Its not meant to be exhaustive (for one, it focuses on the political science side of resource politics) but I am interested in keeping it up-to-date.

Big Theory

• Jill Crystal, Oil and Politics in the Gulf (1995)
• Terry Karl, The Paradox of Plenty (1997)
• Nita Rudra, Globalization and the politics of natural resources (2011; with N. Jensen)
• Kiren Chaudhry, The price of wealth (1997)
• Miriam Lowi, Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics (2009)

Rentier State

• N.H. Barma, The Rentier State at Work  (2014)
• Jocelyn Mitchell, dissertation and conference papers, contact

Democratization

• Silje Aslaksen
  • Constitutions and the Resource Curse (2008; with JJ Andersen)
  • Oil and Democracy: More than a Cross-Country Correlation? (2010)
  • A Theory of Civil Conflict and Democracy in Rentier States (2006; with R Torvik)
• Anke Hoeffler
  • Testing the neocon agenda: Democracy in resource-rich societies (2009; with Paul Collier)
• Sarah Blodgett Bermeo
  • Aid is Not Oil: Donor Utility, Heterogenous Aid, and the Aid-Democratization Relationship (2016)
• Gwenn Okruhlik, Rentier Wealth, Unruly Law, and the Rise of Opposition (1999)

Institutions

• Pauline Jones Luong and Erika Weinthal
  • Oil is not a curse: Ownership structure and institutions in Soviet successor states (2010)
  • Rethinking the Resource Curse (2006)
  • Combating the Resource Curse (2006)
  • Prelude to the Resource Curse (2001)
• Laua Paler
  • Keeping the Public Purse: An experiment in windfalls, taxes, and the incentives to restrain government (2013)
  • The Subnational Resource Curse (2011)
• Christa Brunnschweiler, Cursing the Blessings? Natural Resource Abundance, Institutions, and Growth (2008)

Conflict

• Anca Cotet, Oil and Conflict: What does the cross-country evidence really show? (2013; with K.K. Tsui)
• Anke Hoeffler
  • Greed and Grievance in Civil War (2004; with Paul Collier)
  • Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict (2005; with Paul Collier)
• Christa Brunnschweiler
  • Natural resources and violent conflict: resource abundance, dependence, and the onset of civil wars (2009; with E.H. Bulte)
• Mary Kaldor and Terry Karl, Oil Wars (2007; with Yahia Said)
• Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Resource Curse in Reverse: How Civil Wars Influence Natural Resource Production (2012: with C. Theis)
• Rosemary Kelanic, The Petroleum Paradox (2016)
• Emily Meierding, Dismantling the Oil Wars Myth (2016)
• Paivi Lujala
  • A Diamond Curse? (2005; with Gleditsch and Gilmore)
  • The Spoils of Nature (2010)
  • Deadly Combat Over Natural Resources (2009)
  • Fighting Over Oil (2007)

Women’s Rights

• Pippa Norris
  • Petroleum or Patriarchy? A Response to Ross (2009)
  • Mecca or OIl? Why Arab States Lag in Gender Equality (2011)

Leader/Regime Survival

• Silje Aslaksen
  • Oil and Political Survival (2013; with JJ Andersen)
• Erica Frantz and Barbara Geddes, Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival (2013; with Joseph Wright)
• Chia-Yi Lee
  • Dissertation and conference papers; contact

Measurement

• Christa Brunnschweiler
  • The resource curse revisited and revised: A tale of paradoxes and red herrings (2008; with E.H. Bulte)

Economic Development

• Lydia Tiede, Economic Development Assumptions and the Elusive Curse of Oil (2013; with Ryan Kennedy)
• Christa Brunnschweiler, The curse of natural resources (2009; with K. Wick)
• Sarah Brooks, Conditioning the resource curse: globalization, human capital, and growth in oil-rich nations (2011; with Marcus Brooks)

Health/Nontraditional debates

• Anca Cotet, Oil, Growth, and Health: What does the cross-country evidence really show?

Water

• Veronica Herrera, Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (2017, U of Michigan Press)