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The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracycritically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impactof the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the livesof the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine thepublic policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal politicalideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oildependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation,Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial testof the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hithertobeen advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the GlobalSouth. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democraticparticipation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Albertacase suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations suchas the United States and Australia, which are now in the process ofexploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmentalconsequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject ofmuch attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens ofoil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence governmentpolicy.

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Meenal Shrivastava is associate professor ofpolitical economy and global studies at Athabasca University.Lorna Stefanick is a professor at Athabasca Universitywhere she serves as coordinator for the Governance, Law, and Managementprogram. Contributors: Ricardo Acuña, Bob Barnetson, SaraDorow, Josh Evans, Jason Foster, Joy Fraser, Trevor Harrison, PaulKellogg, Manijeh Mannani, Gabrielle Slowey, Peter (Jay) Smith, MeenalShrivastava, Lorna Stefanick, and Karen Wall.

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