Benjamin Smith

 

 

 

Department of Political Science

University of Florida



Articles and Papers

 

Rethinking the Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: The Continuing Value of Cases and Comparisons, APSA-CP (Winter 2008), 16-21

 

Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World, 1960-1999
American Journal of Political Science (April 2004)

Life of the Party: The Origins of Regime Breakdown and Persistence Under Single-Party Rule
World Politics 57, 3 (April 2005)

 

The Wrong Kind of Crisis: Why Oil Booms and Busts Rarely Lead to Authoritarian Breakdown
Studies in Comparative International Development (Winter 2006)

 

The Origins of Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Experts and the Marketing of Political Interests (forthcoming in Journal of East Asian Studies)

 

Oil Wealth and Regime Change
Presented on a panel entitled “Transforming Rentier Economies,” at the annual meetings of the European Association of Development Institutes, Bonn, September 2005.

If I Do These Things They Will Throw Me Out: Economic Reform and the Collapse of Indonesia’s New Order
Journal of International Affairs (Fall 2003)

Collective Action With and Without Islam: Mobilizing the Bazaar in Iran
In Quintan Wiktorowicz ed. Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003)