Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform

ISBN-13: 9781107106550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str.

Michael Albertus

Opis

This book provides a novel theory of land reform and tests it using extensive original data dating back to 1900.

Recenzje

'A great paradox of modern political life is that concentrated landed wealth is a great frozen ice cap blocking the emergence of modern democracy and development. Yet, democracies themselves seem less capable of implementing land reform than autocracies. To date we have only the barest understanding of the complex politics of land reform. In this careful and ambitious study, Michael Albertus untangles these puzzles, constructing the most comprehensive cross-national and historical dataset on land reform alongside carefully crafted case studies of Peru and Venezuela. The result is an argument that provides the most compelling political theory of land reform to date that has broad implications for the study of democracy, redistribution and autocracy.' Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Actors, interests, and the origins of elite splits; 3. A theory of land reform; 4. Measuring land reform; 5. A cross-national analysis of land reform in Latin America; 6. Elite splits and land redistribution under autocracy: Peru's 'revolution from above'; 7. Land reform transformed to redistribution: Venezuela's Punto Fijo democracy and Chávez's Bolivarian revolution; 8. Latin America in comparative perspective; 9. Conclusion.