local democracy in Colombia, a country mired in civil conflict. We find that when the price of oil rises, legislators … of leaders in power. We study how they influence leaders' rise to power. Our analysis focuses on oil price shocks and … affiliated with right-wing paramilitary groups win office more in oil-producing municipalities. Consistent with the use of force …

evolution of the democracy level of countries affected by giant oil discoveries with the weighted democracy level of countries … democracy in the pre-event period are not affected by the peak of oil discoveries. These results support heterogeneity and non … of oil discovery from the 1970s, we find that the exogenous variation in oil endowment does not have the same effect on …

find evidence of a mitigating role for 'constraints on executive power' and 'democracy'. Other covariates found to be …

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed …

democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and … results are affected by conceptual and methodological changes in the measure of democracy. In particular, we show that …

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed …

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed …