The Rentier State: Relevance, Scope and Explanatory Power of a Four-Decades-Old Paradigm

Conference | 23/09/2013 - 27/09/2013

Deutscher Orientalistentag

Deutscher Orientalistentag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Organisers: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Organiser), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Organiser)

The Rentier State Approach and the Arab. Panel auf dem 32. Deutschen Orientalistentag

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Aarhus University

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Conference | 23/09/2013 - 27/09/2013

Oil Rents, Regime Survival and Contextual Conditions. Lessons from the Arab Monarchies

Deutscher Orientalistentag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Organisers: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Workshop | 03/12/2019 - 05/12/2019

Unequal State Spending and Distributional Coalition Size Across Authoritarian Regimes

Inequality in Autocracies, Constance Organisers: University of Konstanz Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Research & Politics | 2016

State Hydrocarbon Rents, Authoritarian Survival and the Onset of Democracy: Evidence from a New Dataset

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Edited Volume | Manchester University Press | 08/2021

Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies of the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 08/2021

Pressured by the Decreased Price of Oil: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Entwicklung und Struktur der Wirtschaft

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Golfkooperationsrat (GCC)

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Demokratie und Entwicklung | LIT Verlag | 2004

Determinanten einer Wirtschaftspolitik für Kleinst-, Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KKMU) in Ägypten: Ein Beitrag zur Politikfeldanalyse in neo-patrimonialen Semi-Rentierstaaten

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens | 2009

Materielle Ressourcen und der Beginn orthodoxer Wirtschaftsreformen in Marokko, Tunesien, Ägypten und Jordanien: Der Rentierstaatsansatz unter Anpassungsdruck?

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Third World Quarterly | 2008

Politics, Economics and Tourism Development in Egypt: Insights into Sectoral Transformations of a Neo-Patrimonial Rentier State

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Christian Steiner

Weltregionen im Wandel | 2007

Herrschaft, Rente und Außenhandelsreformen: Zur Leistungsfähigkeit einer Typologie von Staatlichkeit im arabischen Vorderen Orient

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Politische Vierteljahresschrift | 2013

Außenhandelsrestriktionen bei Autokratien: Eine empirische Analyse zum Einfluss von Devisenreserven, politischer Offenheit, Rente und Regimetyp

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 2010

Rente, Rentierstaat und die Distribution materieller Ressourcen in Autokratien

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Working Papers | 11/2007

Sectoral Transformations in Neo-Patrimonial Rentier States: Tourism Development and State Policy in Egypt

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Christian Steiner

GIGA Working Papers | 01/2011

Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Director of the GIGA Institute for African Affairs / Editor GIGA Focus Africa

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

European Political Science Review | 2014

Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War but Others Do Not? Investigating the Conditional Effects of Oil

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Director of the GIGA Institute for African Affairs / Editor GIGA Focus Africa

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 3/2017

Structural Reform in the Arab Gulf States – Limited Influence of the G20

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 12/2019

Oil and the Rentier State in the Middle East

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Global Policy | 02/2020

New Petro-Aggression in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia in the Spotlight

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 6/2019

From Abundance to Scarcity: Oil Revenues of the Arab Gulf States Under Pressure

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Cooperation Event | 14/04/2021 - 01/07/2021

10 Years After the Arab Spring

10 Years After the Arab Spring, Online event Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Universität Hamburg, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Academy in Exile Prof. Dr. Amal El-Obeidi (Chair), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Jane Kinninmont (Speaker)

Saudi Arabia & the United Arab Emirates: Spearheads of the Counterrevolution?

Prof. Dr. Amal El-Obeidi

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Dr. Jane Kinninmont

GIGA Event | 04/11/2017

Krise und Strukturwandel in den arabischen Golfstaaten

Weltregionen im Wandel, GIGA Hamburg, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Jens Heibach (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Dr. Jens Heibach

Research Fellow

Conference | 05/04/2018 - 08/04/2018

Do Different Autocracies Spend Differently? Patronage, Distributional Coalition Size, and Adjustment Trajectories

Annual MPSA Conference, Chicago Organisers: Midwest Political Science Association Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

German Political Science Association | 28/09/2018

Patronage, Verteilungskoalitionen und fiskalische Anpassung: Ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher autoritärer Regimetype

Organiser: German Political Science Association Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Ferdinand Eibl (Speaker), Dr. Viola Lucas (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Ferdinand Eibl

Dr. Viola Lucas

Conference | 16/07/2018 - 21/07/2018

Geostrategies and the Resource Curse in the Gulf: Petro-Agression(s) in the Regional System Post-Arab Uprisings

WOCMES Seville, Seville Organisers: Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Event | 15/11/2018 - 16/11/2018

New Petro-Aggressions in the Middle East: Conditions of Emergence and Continuity

Natural Resources in the MENA Region – Building a Sustainable Future under Difficult Conditions, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Workshop | 05/06/2015

Spending versus Taxation in Petro-Autocracies: Exploring Mechanisms of Mass-Cooptation

The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Rule, London Organisers: King’s College London Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Viola Lucas (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Conference | 23/09/2013 - 27/09/2013

Deutscher Orientalistentag

Deutscher Orientalistentag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Organisers: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Organiser), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Organiser)

The Rentier State Approach and the Arab. Panel auf dem 32. Deutschen Orientalistentag

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Aarhus University

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Conference | 23/09/2013 - 27/09/2013

Oil Rents, Regime Survival and Contextual Conditions. Lessons from the Arab Monarchies

Deutscher Orientalistentag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Organisers: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Workshop | 03/12/2019 - 05/12/2019

Unequal State Spending and Distributional Coalition Size Across Authoritarian Regimes

Inequality in Autocracies, Constance Organisers: University of Konstanz Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Research & Politics | 2016

State Hydrocarbon Rents, Authoritarian Survival and the Onset of Democracy: Evidence from a New Dataset

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Edited Volume | Manchester University Press | 08/2021

Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies of the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 08/2021

Pressured by the Decreased Price of Oil: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Entwicklung und Struktur der Wirtschaft

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Golfkooperationsrat (GCC)

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Demokratie und Entwicklung | LIT Verlag | 2004

Determinanten einer Wirtschaftspolitik für Kleinst-, Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KKMU) in Ägypten: Ein Beitrag zur Politikfeldanalyse in neo-patrimonialen Semi-Rentierstaaten

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens | 2009

Materielle Ressourcen und der Beginn orthodoxer Wirtschaftsreformen in Marokko, Tunesien, Ägypten und Jordanien: Der Rentierstaatsansatz unter Anpassungsdruck?

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Third World Quarterly | 2008

Politics, Economics and Tourism Development in Egypt: Insights into Sectoral Transformations of a Neo-Patrimonial Rentier State

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Christian Steiner

Weltregionen im Wandel | 2007

Herrschaft, Rente und Außenhandelsreformen: Zur Leistungsfähigkeit einer Typologie von Staatlichkeit im arabischen Vorderen Orient

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Politische Vierteljahresschrift | 2013

Außenhandelsrestriktionen bei Autokratien: Eine empirische Analyse zum Einfluss von Devisenreserven, politischer Offenheit, Rente und Regimetyp

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 2010

Rente, Rentierstaat und die Distribution materieller Ressourcen in Autokratien

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Working Papers | 11/2007

Sectoral Transformations in Neo-Patrimonial Rentier States: Tourism Development and State Policy in Egypt

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Christian Steiner

GIGA Working Papers | 01/2011

Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Director of the GIGA Institute for African Affairs / Editor GIGA Focus Africa

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

European Political Science Review | 2014

Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War but Others Do Not? Investigating the Conditional Effects of Oil

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Director of the GIGA Institute for African Affairs / Editor GIGA Focus Africa

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 3/2017

Structural Reform in the Arab Gulf States – Limited Influence of the G20

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 12/2019

Oil and the Rentier State in the Middle East

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Global Policy | 02/2020

New Petro-Aggression in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia in the Spotlight

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 6/2019

From Abundance to Scarcity: Oil Revenues of the Arab Gulf States Under Pressure

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Cooperation Event | 14/04/2021 - 01/07/2021

10 Years After the Arab Spring

10 Years After the Arab Spring, Online event Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Universität Hamburg, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Academy in Exile Prof. Dr. Amal El-Obeidi (Chair), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Jane Kinninmont (Speaker)

Saudi Arabia & the United Arab Emirates: Spearheads of the Counterrevolution?

Prof. Dr. Amal El-Obeidi

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Dr. Jane Kinninmont

GIGA Event | 04/11/2017

Krise und Strukturwandel in den arabischen Golfstaaten

Weltregionen im Wandel, GIGA Hamburg, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Jens Heibach (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Dr. Jens Heibach

Research Fellow

Conference | 05/04/2018 - 08/04/2018

Do Different Autocracies Spend Differently? Patronage, Distributional Coalition Size, and Adjustment Trajectories

Annual MPSA Conference, Chicago Organisers: Midwest Political Science Association Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

German Political Science Association | 28/09/2018

Patronage, Verteilungskoalitionen und fiskalische Anpassung: Ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher autoritärer Regimetype

Organiser: German Political Science Association Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Ferdinand Eibl (Speaker), Dr. Viola Lucas (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Ferdinand Eibl

Dr. Viola Lucas

Conference | 16/07/2018 - 21/07/2018

Geostrategies and the Resource Curse in the Gulf: Petro-Agression(s) in the Regional System Post-Arab Uprisings

WOCMES Seville, Seville Organisers: Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Event | 15/11/2018 - 16/11/2018

New Petro-Aggressions in the Middle East: Conditions of Emergence and Continuity

Natural Resources in the MENA Region – Building a Sustainable Future under Difficult Conditions, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Workshop | 05/06/2015

Spending versus Taxation in Petro-Autocracies: Exploring Mechanisms of Mass-Cooptation

The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Rule, London Organisers: King’s College London Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Viola Lucas (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Conference | 23/09/2013 - 27/09/2013

Deutscher Orientalistentag

Deutscher Orientalistentag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Organisers: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Organiser), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Organiser)

The Rentier State Approach and the Arab. Panel auf dem 32. Deutschen Orientalistentag

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Aarhus University

Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Conference | 23/09/2013 - 27/09/2013

Oil Rents, Regime Survival and Contextual Conditions. Lessons from the Arab Monarchies

Deutscher Orientalistentag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Organisers: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)