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> The history lesson is that when the most of the GDP generation doesn't need without the help of the population Counterexample: China. Or plenty of African co
by cyberax 1y ago
> The history lesson is that when the most of the GDP generation doesn't need without the help of the population
Counterexample: China. Or plenty of African countries. Being a petrocracy certainly makes authoritarianism easier, but it's not at all a requirement.
- 29athrowaway 1y agoPetrocracy is a weird term because it is not oil itself the one ruling but the ones who control the oil. We have a term for that, oligarchy.
- cyberax 1y agoIt's actually now used in a lot of political science papers. It means a particular combination of autocracy and oil-dependence. It results in especially toxic regimes, that can be kept stable for quite a long time.