The Role of Subnational Politicians in Distributive Politics: Political Bias in Venezuela's Land Reform Under Chávez
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 48, Heft 13, S. 1667
ISSN: 0010-4140
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 48, Heft 13, S. 1667
ISSN: 0010-4140
In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
"José swung the gate open, hopped back into the bed of the truck, and tapped the window to the cab gently with the butt of his rifle. Iván cut the headlights and put the truck in gear. We inched forward along the bumpy road that carved through the broad southern Venezuelan plains, the dust rising in a thick cloud just behind us. In a low voice, I asked José: "Wouldn't it be easier to find capybara with the headlights on?" "I'll tell you tomorrow," he whispered in reply. "You'll see, on a night like tonight, the moonlight reflects off their eyes.""
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In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
"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"...
In: Oxford Handbook of Authoritarianism, Forthcoming
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 85, Heft 4, S. 1258-1274
ISSN: 1468-2508
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 65-100
ISSN: 1552-3829
Patchiness in rural development remains a salient feature of many developed and developing countries that have struggled historically to overcome enormous national disparities in economic structure and well-being. This paper examines how one major, explicit rural policy ostensibly aimed at rural advancement—land reform—can impact uneven development in the countryside. It does so in Italy, where a major land reform redistributed large landholdings to individual peasant families after World War II. Based on original fine-grained data on land redistribution and a geographical regression discontinuity analysis that takes advantage of Italy's zonal land reform approach, I find that greater land reform fueled comparative underdevelopment and precarity locally over the long term. Several related mechanisms delayed development in land reform zones: a slower transition out of agriculture, lower labor mobility, and an aging demographic. These are generalizable mechanisms that could operate in other cases of land reform beyond Italy.
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 131, S. 104963
In: American journal of political science, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 256-274
ISSN: 1540-5907
AbstractHow does land reform impact civil conflict? This article examines this question in the prominent case of Peru by leveraging original data on all land expropriations under military rule from 1969 to 1980 and event‐level data from the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission on rural killings during Peru's internal conflict from 1980 to 2000. Using a geographic regression discontinuity design that takes advantage of Peru's regional approach to land reform through zones that did not entirely map onto major preexisting administrative boundaries, I find that greater land reform dampened subsequent conflict. Districts in core areas of land reform zones that received intense land reform witnessed less conflict relative to comparable districts in adjacent peripheral areas where less land reform occurred. Further tests suggest that land reform mitigated conflict by facilitating counterinsurgency and intelligence gathering, building local organizational capacity later used to deter violence, undercutting the Marxist left, and increasing opportunity costs to supporting armed groups.
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 113, S. 294-308
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In: Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science
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In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 63, Heft 3, S. 727-759
ISSN: 1552-8766
Why do some former authoritarian elites return to power after democratization through reelection or reappointment to political office, or by assuming board positions in state-owned or major private enterprises, whereas others do not and still others face punishment? This article investigates this question using an original data set on constitutional origins and the fate of the upper echelon of outgoing authoritarian elites across Latin America from 1900 to 2015. I find that authoritarian elites from outgoing regimes that impose a holdover constitution that sticks through democratization are more likely to regain political or economic power—especially through national positions where the potential payoffs are largest—and less likely to face severe or nominal punishment. I also find a positive role for political capital among former elites. These results are robust to alternative explanations of authoritarian elites' fate and using instrumental variables to address potential endogeneity. The findings have important implications for democratic consolidation and quality.
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