Institutions and the adoption of rights: political and property rights in Colombia |
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Authors: | Carmenza Gallo |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Sociology, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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Abstract: | Citizenship rights are the result of specific political bargains between different collective actors and state authorities (Tilly Theory and Society 26(34):599–602, 1997). The political bargains for rights are encoded in institutions, and these institutions develop independently from each other and take organizational characteristics that make certain rights easier to adopt than others. I argue that these institutions vary along two dimensions that affect the extent to which states can adopt rights successfully: one dimension is distributional and the second is the depth or extension of the rules that frame a given right. This article focuses on the institutional differences between property rights, especially land property, and political rights, and on the consequences of those differences on their adoption. I then illustrate my argument with examples from Colombia since 1980. |
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