Response to Miriam R. Lowi's review of Oil Is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States

In her gracious and incisive review, Miriam R. Lowi raises three main questions: 1) whether Russia is indeed a case of private domestic ownership (P1); 2) whether there is a fundamental difference between state ownership with control (S1) and without control (S2); and 3) whether we adequately take into account alternative explanations for the variation in ownership structure (OS) across petroleum-rich states over the twentieth century.