Land and Loyalty Contributor(s): Larsson, Tomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801450810 ISBN-13: 9780801450815 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $62.32 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Business & Economics | Real Estate - General - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
Dewey: 333.309 |
LCCN: 2012001130 |
Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
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Publisher Description: Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in economic benefits. But the country provides a puzzle: Thailand faced major security threats from colonial powers in the nineteenth century and from communism in the twentieth century, yet only in the latter case did the government respond with pro-development tactics. In Land and Loyalty, Tomas Larsson argues that institutional underdevelopment may prove, under certain circumstances, a strategic advantage rather than a weakness and that external threats play an important role in shaping the development of property regimes. Security concerns, he find, often guide economic policy. The domestic legacies, legal and socioeconomic, resulting from state responses to the outside world shape and limit the strategies available to politicians. While Larsson's extensive archival research findings are drawn from Thai sources, he situates the experiences of Thailand in comparative perspective by contrasting them with the trajectory of property rights in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines. |
Contributor Bio(s): Larsson, Tomas: - Tomas Larsson is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. |