Autocracy and redistribution: the politics of land reform

"When and why do countries redistribute land to the landless? What political purposes does land reform serve, and what place does it have in today's world? A long-standing literature dating back to Aristotle and echoed in important recent works holds that redistribution should be both high...

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1. Verfasser: Albertus, Michael 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge Univ. Press 2015
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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Zusammenfassung:"When and why do countries redistribute land to the landless? What political purposes does land reform serve, and what place does it have in today's world? A long-standing literature dating back to Aristotle and echoed in important recent works holds that redistribution should be both higher and more targeted at the poor under democracy. Yet comprehensive historical data to test this claim has been lacking. This book shows that land redistribution - the most consequential form of redistribution in the developing world - occurs more often under dictatorship than democracy. It offers a novel theory of land reform and develops a typology of land reform policies. Albertus leverages original data spanning the world and dating back to 1900 to extensively test the theory using statistical analysis and case studies of key countries such as Egypt, Peru, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. These findings call for rethinking much of the common wisdom about redistribution and regimes"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 347 pages) illustrations 24 cm
ISBN:9781316227107
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316227107

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