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The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy
critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact
of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives
of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the
public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political
ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil
dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation,
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test
of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto
been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global
South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic
participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta
case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such
as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of
exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental
consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of
much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of
oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government
policy.
The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy
critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact
of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives
of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the
public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political
ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil
dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation,
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test
of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto
been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global
South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic
participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta
case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such
as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of
exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental
consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of
much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of
oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government
policy.
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