Land, the State, and War : Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)

Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick/ Murtazashvili, Ilia

Cambridge University Press（2021/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 380 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108493413
• DDC分類 346.5810432

Full Description

Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those in the developing world. This book employs a historical narrative based on secondary literature, fieldwork across thirty villages, and a nationally representative survey to explore how private property institutions develop, how they are maintained, and their relationship to the state and state-building within the context of Afghanistan. In this predominantly rural society, citizens cannot rely on the state to enforce their claims to ownership. Instead, they rely on community-based land registration, which has a long and stable history and is often more effective at protecting private property rights than state registration. In addition to contributing significantly to the literature on Afghanistan, this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on property rights and state governance from the new institutional economics perspective.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. A theory of property rights; 3. Property rights and state building; 4. Property rights and war; 5. Self-governance of property rights; 6. Self-governance, war, and the commons; 7. Self-governance, legal titling, and the state; 8. Are property rights a cause or consequence of political order?; References.