Editing Rentier state (section)

== Criticism ==
[[Giacomo Luciani]], one of the original theorists on rentier states, criticizes the dominance of rentier state theories. These theories are often solely used to analyse resource-rich countries in the [[Greater Middle East]] to explain a multitude of outcomes. Such dominance was not the intention of Luciani:<ref name="Yamada 2020"/>

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|text=Indeed, it has never been my understanding that the rentier state paradigm should be either the sole or the overwhelming tool of interpretation of the political economy of oil-producing countries. I believe that reliance on a stream of rent accruing directly to the state from the rest of the world is an important consideration, but surely not the only one.
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[[Michael Herb]] criticizes the relationship between rentierism and regime type. Using a counterfactual measure which excludes the effect of oil on the economy, Herb shows that oil-rich countries fit the same patterns as other countries. He did not find a consistent support for the thesis that rentierism has a negative effect on democracy scores. Herb does however emphasize that rentierism is a distinctive condition that influences development.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Herb |first1=Michael |title=No Representation without Taxation? Rents, Development, and Democracy |journal=Comparative Politics |date=1 April 2005 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=297–316 |doi=10.2307/20072891|jstor=20072891 }}</ref>