Oil, Islam, and the Middle East: An Empirical Analysis of the Repression of Religion, 1980-2013
There is a lively debate on the relative impacts of Islam, oil wealth, and Middle Eastern institutional legacies regarding democratization and the spread of liberal values. We examine this issue using religious repression. We argue that oil-wealthy rulers use religious monopoly to control dissent. O...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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Politics and religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 249-280 |
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