Land-redistribution and coercive violence

Rohan Gudibande, Abhinaba Nandy and Vatsalya Srivastava

No 1502, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: In a post land reformenvironment, violence and redistribution are substitutes for an opportunistic incumbent attempting industrialization. We setup a theoretical model to explore this relationship for individual and group level violence across two types of policy driven post land-reformindustrialization (PLRI)-small and large-scale, in the Indian state of WestBengal. We find strong evidence for our theoretical prediction of an inverse relationship between land redistribution and both types of violence during the period of small scale industrialization after an industrial policy was announced in 1994-95 by the incumbent. This relationship however breaks down for individual level violence during attempts at large-scale industrialization between 2006-2011, even though both types of violence increase in this phase.

Keywords: post land-reform; redistribution; industrialization; individual-level violence; grouplevel violence; count data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 D74 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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