Movements from Below, Reforms from Above: The Context for the 1991 Mexican Property Rights Reform

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2009

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"As Elinor Ostrom asserted in her Presidential Address to the American Political Science Association, 'the theory of collective action is the central subject of political science'. In this paper I take that assertion as a central thread of my argumentation. My case study is a network of farmers' associations in Mexico which I believe had a strong impact in the content and implementation of the constitutional reforms of 1991-1992 in Mexico, which changed radically the written rules (and I expect the rules-in-use) regarding property rights in the countryside."

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property rights, collective action, rural affairs, institutional design, farmers' associations

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