"Land Grabbing" in an Autocracy and a Multi-Party Democracy

China and India Compared

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3985333
AutoresLynette H Ong (0000-0001-5615-6408, University of Toronto, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume50
Fascículo3
Páginas361-379
Data de publicação2020-05-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472336.2019.1569253
OpenAlexW2911990640
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas51

Both China and India have witnessed extensive land expropriation by the state from farmers for use in industrialisation and urbanisation projects. Land conflicts have ensued from these developments. This article poses two questions: (i) Why do we see a similar escalation of land dispossession in both countries, despite their distinctively dissimilar political systems, one being a one-party authoritarian regime, the other being a multi-party democracy?; and (ii) How does the different regime type affect the politics of dispossession? Despite their diverse political institutions, government officials have been given similar incentives to chase growth by developing land, but the institutions create diverging environments for aggrieved citizens to mobilise for collective action. While it is unsurprising that the interests of the poor and weak are not protected in an autocracy, democracy provides no automatic safety valve in defending marginalised citizens either

Authoritarianism · Autocracy · China · Collective action · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Expropriation · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Industrialisation · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Urbanization · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Land Rights and Reforms · Law