Journal article
Authors list: Franke, Anja; Gawrich, Andrea; Alakbarov, Gurban
Publication year: 2009
Pages: 109-140
Journal: Europe-Asia Studies
Volume number: 61
Issue number: 1
ISSN: 0966-8136
eISSN: 1465-3427
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130802532977
Publisher: 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.
Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: 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 Citation style: 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