| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15264 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15264 |
| De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers | |
| Lee J. Alston; Edwyna Harris; Bernardo Mueller | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-09-03 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto property rights on frontiers prior to governments establishing and enforcing de jure property rights. In this framework, potential rents associated with more exclusivity drives "demand" for commons arrangements but demand is not a sufficient explanation; norms and politics matter. At some point enhanced scarcity will drive demand for more exclusivity beyond which can be sustained with commons arrangements. Claimants will therefore petition government for de jure property rights to their claims - formal titles. Land conflict will be minimal when governments supply property rights to first possessors. But, governments may not allocate de jure rights to these claimants because they face differing political constituencies. Moreover, governments may assign de jure rights but be unwilling to enforce the right. This generates potential or actual conflict over land depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers of Australia, the U.S. and Brazil. We are interested in examining the emergence, sustainability, and collapse of commons arrangements in specific historical contexts. Our analysis indicates the emergence of de facto property rights arrangements will be relatively peaceful where claimants have reasons to organize collectively (Australia and the U.S.). The settlement process will be more prone to conflict when fewer collective activities are required. Consequently, claimants resort to periodic violent self-enforcement or third party enforcement (Brazil). In all three cases the movement from de facto to de jure property rights led to potential or actual conflict because of insufficient government enforcement. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture ; History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15264 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572981 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lee J. Alston,Edwyna Harris,Bernardo Mueller. De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers. 2009. |
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