Does a resource-scarce environment facilitate authoritarian regimes?
A resource-scarce environment rewards rapid action, and forbids luxuries such as bureaucrats arguing themselves to death.
not necessarily, i mean look at russia
it does however instigate expansionism
I read a few interesting arguments that actually resource rich environments fuel authoritarian regimes, specifically with oil
Quite the opposite, I'd say. For example, it's interesting to note that while Indus River Valley farmers laboring under various Rajput tended to have higher yields than contemporaneous agricultural workers in the baltic region of Europe, the Baltic farmers lived much better. It's because, the Indus River Valley agricultural workers were able to create a surplus of grain large enough to facilitate the creation of a state which was capable of taxing and drafting them, that is, capable of imposing on them. The Baltics had less productive sandy soil, but that low production in fact prevented any authoritarian regime from being able to implement it's will as effectively and Baltic farmers, although they had much less surplus, were able to keep most of it.
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No
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rents
>>1085772
>Does a resource-scarce environment facilitate authoritarian regimes?
It requires more complex set-ups of social and financial interactions and many of the jobs needed for the greater good are not desirable.
Not really, on the notion that no government style will save the nation from being a shithole.
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Is this bait? Russia has a huge amount of resoruces.
