Property Without Rights
Title | Property Without Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Albertus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108835236 |
A new understanding of the causes and consequences of incomplete property rights in countries across the world.
Property without Rights
Title | Property without Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Albertus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108858465 |
Major land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these programs granted beneficiaries complete property rights. Why is this the case, and what are the consequences? This book draws on wide-ranging original data and charts new conceptual terrain to reveal the political origins of the property rights gap. It shows that land reform programs are most often implemented by authoritarian governments who deliberately withhold property rights from beneficiaries. In so doing, governments generate coercive leverage over rural populations and exert social control. This is politically advantageous to ruling governments but it has negative development consequences: it slows economic growth, productivity, and urbanization and it exacerbates inequality. The book also examines the conditions under which subsequent governments close property rights gaps, usually as a result of democratization or foreign pressure.
A Liberal Theory of Property
Title | A Liberal Theory of Property PDF eBook |
Author | Hanoch Dagan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108418546 |
Property law should expand opportunities for individual and collective self-determination and restrict options of interpersonal domination.
Women, Power, and Property
Title | Women, Power, and Property PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel E. Brulé |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2020-10-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108870600 |
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
Property and Freedom
Title | Property and Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Pipes |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307427358 |
"A superb book about a topic that should be front and center in the American political debate" (National Review), from the acclaimed Harvard scholar and historian of the Russian Revolution An exploration of a wide range of national and political systems to demonstrate persuasively that private ownership has served over the centuries to limit the power of the state and enable democratic institutions to evolve and thrive in the Western world. Beginning with Greece and Rome, where the concept of private property as we understand it first developed, Richard Pipes then shows us how, in the late medieval period, the idea matured with the expansion of commerce and the rise of cities. He contrasts England, a country where property rights and parliamentary government advanced hand-in-hand, with Russia, where restrictions on ownership have for centuries consistently abetted authoritarian regimes; finally he provides reflections on current and future trends in the United States. Property and Freedom is a brilliant contribution to political thought and an essential work on a subject of vital importance.
Rules Without Rights
Title | Rules Without Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Bartley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0198794339 |
This book is about what it really means when companies claim to be promoting sustainability and fairness in their global operations.
Chinese Small Property
Title | Chinese Small Property PDF eBook |
Author | Shitong Qiao |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2017-10-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107176239 |
Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.