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Michael L. Ross is Professor in the UCLA Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 1996, and previously held positions at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the World Bank. His research focuses on questions about political economy, democratization, natural resources, conflict, gender, and poverty in the developing world.
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Book
Timber
Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia
(Cambridge University Press,
2001)
Articles
Winner of the 2009 Heinz Eulau Award for best article in
the APSR
(American Political Science Review, February 2008)
Is Democracy Good
for the Poor?
(American Journal of Political Science, October 2006)
A Closer Look at Oil,
Diamonds, and Civil War
(Annual Review of Political Science, 2006)
What
Do We Know About Natural Resources and Civil War?
(Journal of
Peace Research, May 2004)
How
Does Natural Resource Wealth Influence Civil War? Evidence from 13 Case
Studies
(IO, Winter 2004)
Does Taxation
Lead to Representation?
(British Journal
of Political Science, 34, 2004)
Announcement,
Credibility, and Turnout in Popular Rebellions
(with Ravi Bhavnani, Journal
of Conflict Resolution, June 2003)
Does
Oil Hinder Democracy?
(World Politics, April 2001)
The Political
Economy of the Resource Curse
(World Politics, January 1999)
Book Chapters
Mineral Wealth, Conflict, and Equitable Development
(in Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps, Anthony Bebbington, Anis Dani,
Arjan de Haan, and Michael Walton eds., World Bank, 2008 )
How Mineral-Rich States Can Reduce Inequality
(in
Escaping the Resource Curse, Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Macartan Humphreys eds., 2007)
Resources
and Rebellion in Indonesia
(in Understanding Civil War:
Europe, Central Asia, and other regions, Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis eds., World Bank, 2003)
Oil,
Drugs, and Diamonds: How Do Natural Resources Vary in their Impact on Civil War?
(In
Beyond
Greed and Grievance: The Political Economy of Armed Conflict, Karen
Ballentine and Jake Sherman eds., Lynne Rienner, 2003)
The Natural
Resource Curse: How Wealth Can Make You Poor
(in
Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions, Ian Bannon and Paul Collier eds., World Bank, 2003)
Other Publications
Blood Barrels: How Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict
(Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008)
Myanmar, the Latest Petro-Bully
(Los Angeles Times (Op-Ed), October 26, 2007)
Nigeria's Oil Sector and the Poor
(Report for the UK Department for International Development, May 2003)
Extractive
Sectors and the Poor
(Oxfam America, October 2001)
Testing
Inductively-Generated Hypotheses with Independent Data Sets
(Comparative
Politics Newsletter, Winter 2003)
Working Papers
The Curse of Oil Wealth (book manuscript)
(January 2009)
Oil and Democracy Revisited
(March 2009)
Booty
Futures
(May 2005)
How Should
States Manage Their Resource Rents? Some Considerations
(December 2004)
Indonesia's
Puzzling Crisis
(July 2001)
