Institutions and economic performance: the use and abuse of culture in new institutional economics / Steven Heydemann. - In: Studies in Comparative International Development 43 (Spring 2008) 1. - S. 27-52

The resource curse is a topic studied intensively in both economics and political science. Much of the focus is now on whether oil affects democratic institutions. We further the debate through the use of additional measures of democracy and multiple time-series estimation strategies. We find no...