Noland, Marcus - In: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 4 (2008) 1, pp. 1-1
Arab political regimes are both unusually undemocratic and unusually stable. A series of statistical models are nested … the Arab population share, with the last determinant subject to multiple interpretations. Hypotheses that did not receive … robust support include the presence of oil rents, conflict with Israel or other neighbors, and the influence of Islam. …