Description: David R. Mares develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016--before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo Chávez.
Review Quotes: David R. Mares offers a remarkably useful analysis of the challenges of harnessing energy exports for sustainable development and the political dynamics that greatly complicate these challenges. His holistic political-economy approach integrates a comprehensive analytic map of political systems with in-depth understanding of the extraordinarily complicated case of Venezuela while also accounting for nationalization and privatization across Latin America.--William Ascher, author of Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries