Land Reform Versus Repression in Counterinsurgency
Evidence From El Salvador
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10071823 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T David Mason (0000-0003-2953-624X, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA, corresponding author), Jesse Hamner (University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA), Amalia Pulido Gómez (0000-0002-9150-855X, Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico), Mustafa Kirisci (0000-0002-8563-2538, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA), Frank M Howell (0000-0002-3185-9016, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 242-267 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027241247539 |
| OpenAlex | W4396687676 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
Land reform has been employed as a component of counterinsurgency strategies to inoculate peasants against rebel appeals by giving peasants their own land. However, the remedial effects of land reform can be undermined by right wing violence and rebel violence intended to subvert land reform implementation. We used municipio level data on land reform and election results from El Salvador to test propositions on the competing effects of land reform and political violence - right wing and rebel - on the distribution of popular support between the regime versus the rebels versus anti-reform parties in the regime. We find consistent evidence across three elections that “land to the tiller” forms of agrarian reform do increase support for the regime while right wing violence does erode support for reformist parties
Geography · Political science · Psychological repression · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Military History and Strategy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Broken promises
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Political Order in Changing Societies
Thirty Years of Transformation in the Agrarian Structure of El Salvador, 1961–1991
Voting in the Shadow of Violence
Draining the Sea by Filling the Graves
Observing El Salvador
Land Tenure, Democracy, and Patterns of Violence During the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal, 1996-2005
Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Land Tenure, Democracy, and Insurgency in Nepal
Fighting Fire with Fire? How (Not) to Neutralize an Insurgency
Agrarian revolution
Economic Roots of Civil Wars and Revolutions in the Contemporary World
Take Two Acres and Call Me in the Morning
An Easy and Accurate Regression Model for Multiparty Electoral Data
A Seemingly Unrelated Regression Model for Analyzing Multiparty Elections
Land Reform as a Counterinsurgency Policy
Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines
The Political Economy of Death Squads
Rebellion in Rural Peru
Land Reform and the Breakdown of Clientelist Politics in El Salvador
Land Reform and Civil Conflict
Too Much of a Bad Thing? Civilian Victimization and Bargaining in Civil War
Why Peasants Rebel
Searching for Agrarian Reform in Latin America
Determinants of invalid voting in Latin America
Introducing the Global Terrorism Database
Between Democracy and Revolution
Explaining Support for Combatants during Wartime
The Huk Rebellion
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |