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

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  • Anja Franke
  • Andrea Gawrich
  • Gurban Alakbarov

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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.

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  • Anja Franke & Andrea Gawrich & Gurban Alakbarov, 2009. "Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States: Resource Incomes and Autocracy as a Double ‘Curse’in Post-Soviet Regimes," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(1), pages 109-140.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:61:y:2009:i:1:p:109-140
    DOI: 10.1080/09668130802532977
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