Evaluating Collective Action for Effective Land Policy Reform in Developing Country Contexts: The Construction and Validation of Dimensions and Indicators

Lin Zhou (), Walter Timo de Vries, Alexandra Panman, Fei Gao and Chenyu Fang
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Lin Zhou: Chair of Land Management, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany
Walter Timo de Vries: Chair of Land Management, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany
Alexandra Panman: Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, London WC1H 9EZ, UK
Fei Gao: State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Chenyu Fang: Department of Aerospace and Geodesy, Professorship for Big Geospatial Data Management, Technical University of Munich, 85521 Munich, Germany

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-21

Abstract: Although land reform can be motivated by different policy objectives, it always involves the participation of many actors. Insights from New Institutional Economics suggest that individual interests that are not aligned with collective interests tend to undermine the goals of reform. This study provides a viable framework and measures for social capital, trust, and cooperation performance and their interrelationships to compensate for the existing separate analysis of these three factors and their rare application in achieving goals of collective action. We also build a strong and deepening theoretical foundation for the indicator design, providing a rich representation of social capital, trust, and cooperation performance. After being presented with variables, indicators are used to further elaborate on the variables to enhance the richness and science of the indicator design. The validation results of indicators from 12 experts and 223 respondents are to yield an average reliable coefficient as a positive sign of reliability and validity of the evaluation process with Kendall’s Co-efficient of Concordance (W) through R programming. This study emphasizes the importance of collective action for sustainable land use and effective land policy reform, a topic that remains underrepresented in most land reform analyses.

Keywords: collective action; trust; land policy reform; indicators design; reliability validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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