Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Oil Wealth and Politics in the Developing World -- Explaining Regime Durability in Oil-Rich States -- The Impact and Legacies of Oil and Late Development -- The Oil Booms and Beyond -- Oil, Opposition, and Late Development -- Conclusion --...

This Element documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse, diagnoses its sources, and directs scholarly attention towards what the authors believe will be more fruitful avenues of future research. In the scholarship to date, there is substantial regional...