The Politics of Property

The Politics of Property
Author: Laura Brace
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004-09-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781403967503

This book offers a theory of property that takes into account current debates about gender, slavery, and colonialism. It introduces property as a contested concept and explores how that contestability is played out in political debates between thinkers, across ideologies, and in political practice. Analyzing the key debates, Brace illustrates how private property has been caught up with ideas of labor, freedom, and belonging and has informed the development of liberalism, socialism, and conservatism as well as the construction of class, gender, and race. While examining the works of Locke, Winstanley, Godwin, Bentham, Hegel, and Marx, this book focuses on the idea of property as a site of struggle and as a means of connecting individuals to civil society and the state. It offers valuable insights into the ways in which ideas about property influence political ideologies, thought, and practice.

Politics and Property Rights

Politics and Property Rights
Author: Shawn Everett Kantor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226423777

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to fence in their animals, arguing that the existing system (in which farmers built protective fences around crops) was outdated and inhibited economic growth.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.

The Politics of Property Rights

The Politics of Property Rights
Author: Stephen Haber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003-05-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521820677

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.

Property, Power and Politics

Property, Power and Politics
Author: Robé, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-10-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1529213185

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.

Property and Political Order in Africa

Property and Political Order in Africa
Author: Catherine Boone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2014-02-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107040698

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.

Property And Politics In Sabah, Malaysia

Property And Politics In Sabah, Malaysia
Author: Amity A. Doolittle
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780295985398

This very welcome book offers important insights into the logic of development in Malaysia, as well as its impact on local struggles for land rights. Amity Doolittle has written an exemplary work that utilizes ethnography, political economy, and historical analysis. An impressive, well-written, and well-researched book. - American Anthropologist

The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa

The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa
Author: Ato Kwamena Onoma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521765714

This book provides unique insight into the relationship of institutions that govern land rights to local and national politics in African countries.

Land Politics

Land Politics
Author: Lauren Honig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2022-08-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009123408

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.

The Politics of Land

The Politics of Land
Author: Tim Bartley
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1787564274

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.

Property Without Rights

Property Without Rights
Author: Michael Albertus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total 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.