The Politics Of Property Rights

Author : Stephen Haber,Noel Maurer,Armando Razo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521820677

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The Politics of Property Rights by Stephen Haber,Noel Maurer,Armando Razo Pdf

This book addresses a puzzle in political economy: why is it that political instability does not necessarily translate into economic stagnation or collapse? In order to address this puzzle, it advances a theory about property rights systems in many less developed countries. In this theory, governments do not have to enforce property rights as a public good. Instead, they may enforce property rights selectively (as a private good), and share the resulting rents with the group of asset holders who are integrated into the government. Focusing on Mexico, this book explains how the property rights system was constructed during the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship (1876-1911) and then explores how this property rights system either survived, or was reconstructed. The result is an analytic economic history of Mexico under both stability and instability, and a generalizable framework about the interaction of political and economic institutions.

Author : Shawn Everett Kantor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226423751

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Politics and Property Rights by Shawn Everett Kantor Pdf

After the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. They advocated the stock law, which required livestock owners to fence in their animals, arguing that the existing system (in which farmers built protective fences around crops) was outdated and inhibited economic growth. The reformers steadily won their battles, and by the end of the century the range was on the way to being closed. In this original study, Kantor uses economic analysis to show that, contrary to traditional historical interpretation, this conflict was centered on anticipated benefits from fencing livestock rather than on class, cultural, or ideological differences. Kantor proves that the stock law brought economic benefits; at the same time, he analyzes why the law's adoption was hindered in many areas where it would have increased wealth. This argument illuminates the dynamics of real-world institutional change, where transactions are often costly and where some inefficient institutions persist while others give way to economic growth.

Author : Michael Albertus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108835237

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Property Without Rights by Michael Albertus Pdf

A new understanding of the causes and consequences of incomplete property rights in countries across the world.

Author : Stephen H. Haber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mexico
ISBN : OCLC:1392317110

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The Politics of Property Rights by Stephen H. Haber Pdf

Author : Catherine Boone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107040694

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Property and Political Order in Africa by Catherine Boone Pdf

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages, and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and "nationalization" of political competition.

Author : Lauren Honig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009123402

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Land Politics by Lauren Honig Pdf

This book provides new insight into the high-stakes struggle to control land in the Global South through the lens of land titling in Zambia and Senegal. Based on extensive fieldwork, it shows how chiefs and communities challenge the state, in an era of increasing scarcity and booming global land markets.

Author : Tim Bartley
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787564275

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The Politics of Land by Tim Bartley Pdf

This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracking, gentrification, and property taxes in the USA.

Author : Meg E. Rithmire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107117303

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Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism by Meg E. Rithmire Pdf

This book explains the origins of Chinese land politics and explores how property rights and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities.

Author : Robé, Jean-Philippe
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529213188

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Property, Power and Politics by Robé, Jean-Philippe Pdf

Globalization is an extraordinary phenomenon affecting virtually everything in our lives. And it is imperative that we understand the operation of economic power in a globalized world if we are to address the most challenging issues our world is facing today, from climate change to world hunger and poverty. This revolutionary work rethinks globalization as a power system feeding from, and in competition with, the state system. Cutting across disciplines of law, politics and economics, it explores how multinational enterprises morphed into world political organisations with global reach and power, but without the corresponding responsibilities. In illuminating how the concentration of property rights within corporations has led to the rejection of democracy as an ineffective system of government and to the rise in inequality, Robé offers a clear pathway to a fairer and more sustainable power system.

Author : Terry L. Anderson,Fred S. McChesney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0691099987

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Property Rights by Terry L. Anderson,Fred S. McChesney Pdf

In the end, the book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of an intriguing subject, accessible to anyone with a minimal background in economics. (An introductory chapter introduces the handful of assumptions embedded in the text's economics and law).

Author : European Consortium for Political Research. Joint Sessions of Workshops
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849802062

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Politics of Intellectual Property by European Consortium for Political Research. Joint Sessions of Workshops Pdf

We know much more about the global politics of intellectual property than we do about national political contests over the ownership of knowledge. Haunss and Shadlen have identified this gap in the literature and have done a fine job of bringing together a set of essays that helps to fill this gap in our understanding of the multi-layered nature of intellectual property politics. Peter Drahos, The Australian National University, Canberra This thought-provoking volume provides invaluable new insights and is a major contribution to the debate on the politics of intellectual property rights. Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary, University of London, UK This book offers empirical analyses of conflicts over the ownership, control, and use of knowledge and information in developed and developing countries. Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C. Shadlen, along with a collection of eminent contributors, focus on how business organizations, farmers, social movements, legal communities, state officials, transnational enterprises, and international organizations shape IP policies in areas such as health, information-communication technologies, indigenous knowledge, genetic resources, and many others. The innovative and original chapters examine conflicts over the rules governing various dimensions of IP, including patents, copyrights, traditional knowledge, and biosafety regulations. Written from a political perspective, this book is a must-read for political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists who study IP and conflicts over property. It is also an essential read for stakeholders in institutions, NGOs and industry interested in knowledge governance and IP politics.

Author : Rachel E. Brulé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108835824

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Women, Power, and Property by Rachel E. Brulé Pdf

Cutting-edge research from India finds bargaining power predicts whether electoral quotas can empower women to upend economic inequality.

Author : Itai Sened
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521572479

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The Political Institution of Private Property by Itai Sened Pdf

In this book, Itai Sened examines the political institution of property and other individual rights. His argument is that the foundation of such rights is to be found in the political and economic institutions which grant and enforce them and not in any set of moral principles or 'nature'. The book further argues that individual rights are instituted through a political process, and not by any hidden market forces. The origin of rights is placed in a social contract that evolves as a political process in which governments grant and protect property and other individual rights to constituents, in return for economic and political support. Extending neo-institutional theory to the subject, and using a positive game theoretic approach in its analysis, this book is an original contribution to scholarship on the evolution of rights.

Author : Philip Keefer,Stephen F. Knack
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Crecimiento economico
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Polarization, Politics, and Property Rights by Philip Keefer,Stephen F. Knack Pdf

One strand of research argues that polarized societies find it difficult to reach political consensus on appropriate responses to crises. Another strand focuses on redistribution, asking whether income inequality stifles growth by increasing political incentives to redistribute. Which is right?

Author : Jordan Gans-Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107153967

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Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia by Jordan Gans-Morse Pdf

This book looks at how top-down efforts to strengthen property rights are unlikely to succeed without demand for law from private firms.