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  > Or how there's a direct link between a country's oil revenues and democracy.
Yeah, oil prices drop and Alberta and Canada promptly elect left-of-center governments.



There's a well-known link between oil revenues (well, natural resource revenues) and democracy:

http://www.voxeu.org/article/oil-and-democracy-new-insights

Well-established democracies with diverse economies such as Canada are mostly immune to these effects.

More reading:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2011-08-...

What's interesting about that article is how it predicts unrest in the Middle East surrounding the control over oil resources. By obtaining control over oil resources Daesh has secured their ability to continue operating. Take away that resource and they're likely to die off pretty quickly.




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