Amanda Zadorian

Amanda Zadorian is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at the New School for Social Research. Her research concerns the forms of political legitimacy and accountability that accompanied processes of global economic financialization. Her dissertation, Competing for Legitimacy: Oil Industry Reform in Russia and Brazil, is a study focused on national oil companies Rosneft and Petrobras during the 2004-14 commodity boom. The adoption of a shareholder identity for the state in the oil industry requires us to revise our traditional model of oil-rich “rentier states” to include forms of governance by professional and financial benchmarks, which further reduce the accountability of political leadership to society.