Land Reform and Civil Conflict
Theory and Evidence from Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Albertus (0000-0002-3341-8687, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 256-274 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12466 |
| OpenAlex | W2971536214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 34 |
How does land reform impact civil conflict? This article examines this question in the prominent case of Peru by leveraging original data on all land expropriations under military rule from 1969 to 1980 and event‐level data from the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission on rural killings during Peru's internal conflict from 1980 to 2000. Using a geographic regression discontinuity design that takes advantage of Peru's regional approach to land reform through zones that did not entirely map onto major preexisting administrative boundaries, I find that greater land reform dampened subsequent conflict. Districts in core areas of land reform zones that received intense land reform witnessed less conflict relative to comparable districts in adjacent peripheral areas where less land reform occurred. Further tests suggest that land reform mitigated conflict by facilitating counterinsurgency and intelligence gathering, building local organizational capacity later used to deter violence, undercutting the Marxist left, and increasing opportunity costs to supporting armed groups
Civil Conflict · Commission · Discontinuity (linguistics · Geography · Land reform · Political science · Regression discontinuity design · Spanish Civil War · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
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Land tenure, price shocks, and insurgency
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Shining Path
Inequality and Instability
Take Two Acres and Call Me in the Morning
Geographic Boundaries as Regression Discontinuities
Land Inequality and Rural Unrest
Land Reform as a Counterinsurgency Policy
Rebellion in Rural Peru
Domestic Terrorism
Why Peasants Rebel
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Ideology in Context
Agriculture, Bureaucracy, and Military Government in Peru
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |