Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - In: World Economic Review 2015 (2015) 4, pp. 27-27
This paper proposes the argument that natural resource abundance and large economic inequality, by shaping the interests of different social groups, are key factors for the determination of the transition scenario from authoritarianism to democracy. In turn, the transition scenario, and in...