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Ressourcenmanagement und Innerstaatliche Konflikte

Fachliche Zuordnung Politikwissenschaft
Förderung Förderung von 2011 bis 2018
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 190673504
 
Erstellungsjahr 2019

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Focusing on regulatory and institutional channels through which natural resources may impact conflict and socio-economic development at the local level, our project has contributed to the resource curse theory in two fundamental ways. First, we offer a theoretical framework integrating macro-, meso- and micro-level channels through which natural resource extraction may affect social upheaval and local development. This framework underlines the importance of considering the regulatory context (control rights regimes), local institutional settings (e.g. the degree of political accountability) and the motivation of main actors (companies, government and extractive communities) when analyzing the societal impacts of resource extraction. Based on this approach, we show that state-controlled resource extraction may in fact reduce the risk of social conflict and improve regional wellbeing under certain institutional conditions. Thereby, we qualify common assertions that the resource curse is largely driven by state ownership over natural resources. An additional key theoretical insight of this project is that previous research on the resource curse may suffer from aggregation bias. Previous analyses of the relationship between natural resources and aggregated socio-economic outcomes often confound the influences of multiple factors. The confluence of factors hinders a more rigorous mapping of empirical results to theory and the establishment of causality as it masks a bundle of different and potentially offsetting mechanisms. We show that different ownership arrangements and different institutional settings produce a wide array of local outcomes that are not captured by country-level analyses.

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