Khalid Abu-Ismail, UN-ESCWA Beirut Division Chief This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. The extensive literature on the political economy in Arab states features a distinctively important role
Borders, sovereignty, and sample selection bias: Rethinking the politics of the resource curse
Benjamin Smith, University of Florida and David Waldner, University of Virginia[1] This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. Theories of the rentier state and the resource curse are
Social engineering in rentier states
Calvert W. Jones, University of Maryland, College Park This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. Culture plays a limited role in rentier theory, and social engineering even less
Rentier-preneurship: Dependence and autonomy in women’s entrepreneurship in the Gulf
Crystal A. Ennis, Leiden University This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. Increasingly rentier states nurture a dysfunctional, but useful, relationship with neoliberal capitalism. This corresponds with global
Oil metonym, citizens’ entitlement, and rent maximizing: Reflections on the specificity of Kuwait
Claire Beaugrand, University of Exeter This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. According to the rentier-state theory (RST), the “externally-derived, usually unproductively-earned income resulting from natural resources or
Understanding Gulf citizen preferences towards rentier subsidies
Justin Gengler, Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI), Qatar University; Michael Ewers, SESRI, Qatar University; and Bethany Shockley, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States
What’s yours is mine: Gulf SWFs as a barometer of state-society relations
Karen E. Young, American Enterprise Institute and George Washington University This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. Introduction The concept of rentierism is deeply entangled with understandings of
Oil and societal quiescence: Rethinking causal mechanisms in rentier state theory
Jessie Moritz, Australian National University This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. Does the absence of revolution in the states of the Gulf during the 2011 Arab uprisings vindicate
Resisting rentierism: Labor market reforms in Saudi Arabia
Andrew Leber, Harvard University This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. The mounting number of mechanisms linking oil wealth to political outcomes risks obscuring how the practice of
What would the Saudi economy have to look like to be “post-rentier”?
Steffen Hertog, London School of Economics This chapter is part of POMEPS Studies 33: The Politics of Rentier States in the Gulf. Download the full PDF here. Most oil producers in the Global South have espoused plans to diversify their economies away