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Land, the state, and war : property institutions and political order in Afghanistan / Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh, Ilia Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick, author.
- Murtazashvili, Ilia, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
- Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Law and legislation--Afghanistan.
- Land tenure.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Law and legislation.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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:
- Introduction
- A theory of property rights
- Property rights and state building
- Property rights and war
- Self-governance of property rights
- Self-governance, war, and the commons
- Self-governance, legal titling, and the state
- Are property rights a cause or consequence of political order?
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-63979-8
- 1-108-63947-X
- 1-108-64221-7
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