The Impact of Fuel Ownership on Intrastate Violence

摘要: The impact of natural resources on intrastate violence has been increasingly analyzed in the peace and conflict literature. Surprisingly, little quantitative evidence gathered effects resource-ownership structure internal violence. This paper uses a novel dataset oil gas property rights covering 40 countries during period 1989–2010. results regression analyses employing logit models reveal that curvilinear effect between hydrocarbon production civil onset – often found previous studies only applies to which is mainly state controlled. findings suggest state-owned hydrocarbons may entail - buying mechanisms such as specific clientelistic practices, patronage networks, welfare policies, and/or coercion. At same time, it seems greed grievance are more pronounced whenever lie hands state. Exploring within country variation, further divergent spending patterns likely be one causal channel driving relationship resource ownership