Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2009

Seiten: 109-140

Zeitschrift: Europe-Asia Studies

Bandnummer: 61

Heftnummer: 1

ISSN: 0966-8136

eISSN: 1465-3427

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130802532977

Verlag: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
This article presents an analysis of two post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan
and Azerbaijan, which can be identified as post-Soviet rentier states.
Both countries are characterised economically by enormous national
resources of gas and oil and low economic diversification as well as
politically by strong autocratic presidentialism with neopatrimonial
structures. These two factors, combined with further post-Soviet
legacies such as a low level of political interest in the respective
societies and a basically hierarchical orientation of the population,
lead to a specific post-Soviet variety of rentierism. From a political
science perspective, this article reveals the impact of resource
policies on these comparably new political systems and concludes with a
summary of core features of these post-Soviet rentier states.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Franke, A., Gawrich, A. and Alakbarov, G. (2009) Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States: Resource Incomes and Autocracy as a Double ‘Curse’ in Post-Soviet Regimes, Europe-Asia Studies, 61(1), pp. 109-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130802532977

APA-Zitierstil: Franke, A., Gawrich, A., & Alakbarov, G. (2009). Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States: Resource Incomes and Autocracy as a Double ‘Curse’ in Post-Soviet Regimes. Europe-Asia Studies. 61(1), 109-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130802532977