Land Reform and Government Support: Voting Incentives in the Countryside

Felipe González

No 12, Working Papers ClioLab from EH Clio Lab. Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of land reform on political support for the incumbent party. Using agricultural and housing census data at the county level two major findings are presented. First, using different estimation techniques I found that incumbent support increases in 4-6% in counties with land reform. Second, agricultural workers seem to be the main group changing its voting patterns in these counties. I discuss several mechanisms that could be behind these results and empirically explores a few of them. Migration to counties with land reform is unlikely to be a mechanism, and an increase in public goods supply can partially explain the increase in government support.

Date: 2010
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