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What the critics are saying...

The impact of resources on seven governments.

Two democracies: Athens and the United States

Five dictatorships: Sparta, Rome, Revolutionary France, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany

A core idea -

Resource availability determines whether governments become democracies or dictatorships.

A political theory:

Democracies and dictatorships are determined by the amount of resources countries possess.

An economic theory:

Communist and capitalist systems, like their political counterparts, are determined by resource availability.