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Taking Causal Heterogeneity Seriously: Implications for Case Choice and Case Study-Based Generalizations by Hertog, Steffen

“…In mixed methods approaches, statistical models are used to identify “nested” cases for intensive, small-n investigation for a range of purposes, including…”
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The Political Economy of Distribution in the Middle East: Is There Scope for a New Social Contract? by Hertog, Steffen

“…The majority of Arab political economies are characterised by a peculiar distributional system built on excess public employment and wide-ranging energy…”
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Segmented market economies in the Arab world: the political economy of insider–outsider divisions by Hertog, Steffen

“…Abstract This article argues that the low dynamism of low- to mid-income Arab economies is explained with a set of interconnected factors that constitute a…”
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The 'rentier mentality', 30 years on: evidence from survey data by Hertog, Steffen

“…The "rentier mentality" has been a key concept in rentier state theory since its development in the 1980s. It predicts that reliance on state patronage breaks…”
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Defying the Resource Curse: Explaining Successful State-Owned Enterprises in Rentier States by Hertog, Steffen

“…The article explains how several Gulf rentier monarchies have managed to create highly profitable and well-managed state-owned enterprises (SOEs), confounding…”
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Dangerous Ideas: The Force of Ideology and Personality in Driving Radicalization by Hertog, Steffen

“…Graeme Wood's The Way of the Strangers gets as close as is humanly possible to an ethnography of recruiters and sympathizers of the Islamic State. Contrary to…”
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Introduction: revisiting rentierism-with a short note by Giacomo Luciani by Yamada, Makio, Hertog, Steffen

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The Sociology of the Gulf Rentier Systems: Societies of Intermediaries by Hertog, Steffen

“…Theories about the politics and economics of resource-rich or “rentier” states have been around for almost four decades now (Mahdavy 1970; Beblawi 1987;…”
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Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism by Hertog, Steffen, Arellano, Adrian, Hegghammer, Thomas, Østby, Gudrun

“…Does economic deprivation fuel terrorist recruitment? A large empirical literature has explored this question, but the findings remain contradictory and…”
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Rentier Militaries in the Gulf States: The Price of Coup-Proofing by Hertog, Steffen

“…Oil and dynastic rule have led to an idiosyncratic pattern of state formation in the Gulf, and in few parts of the state are the idiosyncrasies more pronounced…”
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Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East; Political Change in the Arab Gulf States: Stuck in Transition by Hertog, Steffen

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Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East. By Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 382p. $90.00 cloth, $30.99 paper. - Political Change in the Arab Gulf States: Stuck in Transition. Edited by Mary Ann Tétreault, Gwenn Okruhlik, and Andrzej Kapiszewski. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2011. 369p. $68.50 by Hertog, Steffen

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Why are there so many Engineers among Islamic Radicals? by Gambetta, Diego, Hertog, Steffen

“…This article demonstrates that among violent Islamists engineers with a degree, individuals with an engineering education are three to four times more frequent…”
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SHAPING THE SAUDI STATE: HUMAN AGENCY'S SHIFTING ROLE IN RENTIER-STATE FORMATION by Hertog, Steffen

“…There are two established ways of recounting the emergence of the modern Gulf oil monarchies. The social scientific explanation describes anonymous structural…”
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Two-level negotiations in a fragmented system: Saudi Arabia's WTO accession by Hertog, Steffen

“…Based on a case study of Saudi Arabia's WTO accession, the article offers a critique of conventional factor- and sector-based models of trade policy, proposing…”
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Petromin: The slow death of statist oil development in Saudi Arabia by Hertog, Steffen

“…The paper recounts the history of Saudi Arabia's first national oil company, Petromin, which was originally supposed to take the place of foreign-owned Aramco…”
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The GCC and Arab Economic Integration: A New Paradigm by Hertog, Steffen

“…The most recent region-wide initiative, the 1997 Executive Program for Arab Free Trade, which was signed by 17 of the 22 member states of the Arab League, is…”
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SHAPING THE SAUDI STATE: HUMAN AGENCY'S SHIFTING ROLE IN RENTIER-STATE FORMATION by Hertog, Steffen

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SHAPING THE SAUDI STATE: HUMAN AGENCY'S SHIFTING ROLE IN RENTIER-STATE FORMATION by Hertog, Steffen

“…The article offers a revisionist account of how the modern Saudi state emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Differing with structuralist “rentier-state” accounts, I…”
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Les islamistes saoudiens : une insurrection manquée de Stéphane Lacroix: Paris, PUF, 2010, 360 pages by Hertog, Steffen

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