Journal article

Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States: Resource Incomes and Autocracy as a Double ‘Curse’ in Post-Soviet Regimes


Authors listFranke, Anja; Gawrich, Andrea; Alakbarov, Gurban

Publication year2009

Pages109-140

JournalEurope-Asia Studies

Volume number61

Issue number1

ISSN0966-8136

eISSN1465-3427

DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1080/09668130802532977

PublisherTaylor 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 styleFranke, 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 styleFranke, 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


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