Rentier state

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A rentier state is a regimes that depend on the collection of economic rents in the form of revenues from non-renewable natural resources, exploitation of tourism, economic aid from other states and corruption. Such regimes are much freer to be authoritarian because they do not rely on taxation levied on their citizens. Saudi Arabia, which depends on oil revenues and the spending of religious pilgrims to Mecca, is a classic and perhaps the ultimate rentier state.

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References

• Oystein Noreng. "The Predicament of the Gulf Rentier State," in Daniel Heradstveit and Helge Hveem, ed.s, Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy and Development. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 0754639681. Pp. 9-40.
• Michael T. Klare. 2004. Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Owl Books. ISBN 0805079386.