Historical Foundations of Political Development in the Global South Mini-Conference: The Politics of Property Rights and Redistribution

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Historical Foundations of Political Development in the Global South Mini-Conference

Session Description

The third panel analyzes the politics of property rights and redistribution. Barham analyzes how the military facilitated landed elites’ resistance to land redistribution in 1930s Mexico. Urteaga investigates the politics of agricultural policymaking in Chile and Colombia during the era of import substitution industrialization, seeking to explain why Chile’s development strategy was more biased against agriculture than Colombia’s. Paniagua uses evidence from Argentina to that portfolio diversification accounts for elite decisions to invest in different strategies around redistribution. Mangonnet shows that the exogenous abolition of labor-repressive arrangements (e.g., slavery) in Imperial Brazil fostered the emergence of private property rights as a legal means to control labor and preclude freed workers from having land access.

Sub Unit

• Division 6: Political Economy

Cosponsor

• Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy

Individual Presentations

• How the Military Facilitated Elite Backlash to Redistribution - Elena Barham, Columbia University

• Fighting Urban Bias - Madai Urteaga Quispe, Harvard University

• Abolitionism and Property Rights Formation - Jorge G Mangonnet, Vanderbilt University

• Protecting Land in Courtrooms: Elites and Judicial Behavior in Colombia - Laura Garcia Montoya, University of Toronto; ANA MARIA MONTOYA GARCIA, Duke University; Isabel Güiza-Gómez, The University of Notre Dame

Chair

• James Mahoney Northwestern University

Discussants

• James Mahoney Northwestern University

• Jane Esberg University of Pennsylvania