Michael Herb

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Book

All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Articles & Chapters

"A Nation of Bureaucrats: Political Participation and Economic Diversification in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates," 2009, International Journal of Middle East Studies," 41, no. 3 (August), 375-395

"Kuwait: Parliamentary Politics and Obstacles to Democracy." 2008. In Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf. Ed. Joshua Teitelbaum. New York: Columbia University Press.

"No Representation without Taxation? Rents, Development and Democracy," 2005, Comparative Politics 37, no.3 (April): 297-317.

If you would like an electronic copy of this article, I would be happy to email one to you. Comparative Politics does not make electronic versions of its articles available in any source other than JSTOR, and there only after a five year lag. An earlier version of the paper was presented at the 2002 APSA conference. Click here for a more recent draft.

Replication data for this article: the dataset; the codebook; the regression results (see page 41 for why not to use a five year layered lag).

"Parliaments in the Gulf Monarchies: A Long Way from Democracy," 2004. Arab Reform Bulletin, 2, no. 10: 7-8. Click here for a local copy, and here for the Bulletin at the Carnegie Endowment.

"Princes and Parliaments in the Arab World." 2004. Middle East Journal. 58, no. 3 (Summer): 367-384. Click here for a draft.

"Taxation and Representation," 2003, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38, no. 3 (Fall): 3-31.  May 2003 Draft

"Emirs and Parliaments in the Gulf." 2002. Journal of Democracy. 13, no. 4 (October): 41-47.  

"Iran and the Shi'a of the Arab States of the Gulf." 1999. In Ethnic Conflict and International Politics in the Middle East, edited by Leonard Binder. University Press of Florida.