Oil, democracy, and development in Africa /
This book focuses on the history, key industry and policy actors, and political economic outcomes in oil-producing African states.
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Tale of Two Petrostates; The Argument: Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa; Oil and Democracy; Oil and Development; Critical Actors and the Phase of Production; Propositions; Proposition I: History Embeds Behavior in African Petrostates; Proposition II: States with Histories of Routine Violence Before the Onset of Oil Production Will Continue to Have High Levels of Social Unrest Afterward.
- Proposition III: Levels of Corruption Diminish as a Petrostate Shifts from Being an Emerging to a Mature Producer.Organization of the Book; Conclusion; 2 Historic Paths: Colonialism and Its Legacies; Introduction; Historical Paths; The Colonial State; French Colonialism; Taxes and Economic Policies in French Africa; Social Cleavages and Class Formation in French Africa; Political Events and the Colonial State; Portuguese Colonialism; Social Class Formation in Angola; Political Events and the Colonial State in Angola; São Tomé and Príncipe; British Colonialism.
- Social Class Formation in British Africa: Nigeria Political Events and British Colonialism in Nigeria; Nigeria as an Emerging Petrostate; Conclusion; 3 Oil Companies: Corporate Strategies and Profits; Introduction; Oil Companies and Changing Strategies in a Historical Perspective; The History of Oil Companies; The Actors: International, National, and Domestic National Oil Companies; International Oil Companies; National Oil Companies; Domestic National Oil Companies; Fiscal Regimes in African Petrostates; Contractual Arrangements; Revenue Management: Laws, Tax Codes, and Contracts.
- Direct and Indirect Taxation Conclusion; 4 Economic Growth and Phases of Production; Introduction; The Phase of Production; The Phase of Production and Revenue Management; The Phases of Production and Economic Growth; Phases of Production and Political Economic Choices; Emerging Producers; Economic Growth in Emerging Producers; Ghana: A Democratic Emerging Producer; Mature Producers; The 2005 Auctions for Nigerian Production Sharing Contracts; Economic Growth in Mature Producers; Declining Producers; Economic Growth in Declining Producers; Congo: A Declining Mature Producer.
- Gabon: A Middle-Income Declining Producer Conclusion; 5 Resource Revenues, Corruption, and Contracts; Introduction; Historical Antecedents of Corruption; Natural Resources and Development; The Corruption Dilemma in African Petrostates; Revenue Mismanagement and Corruption among Petrostates; Corruption as a Willful Act in African Petrostates; Brokers and Gatekeepers: Informality and Corruption; Corruption in Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo; Alleged Corruption and Brokers in an Emerging Producer: Ghana; The Kosmos Controversy: The Actors; The Kosmos Controversy: Allegations.
