Can a Populist Political Party Bear the Risk of Granting Complete Property Rights?: Electoral outcomes of Mexico's second land reform

Alain de Janvry (), Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Elisabeth Sadoulet ()

No wp-2011-036, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependence for beneficiaries on the ruling political party; and complete property rights starting in 1992, allowing beneficiaries to relate directly to the market. We analyse the impact on political behaviour of switching from incomplete to complete property rights.

Keywords: Land tenure; Political science; Voting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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