How Interest Groups with Limited Resources can Influence Political Outcomes: Information Control and the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo; Libecap, Gary D.

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“…The Brazilian Landless Peasants Movement has been analysed by Alston et al . (). They describe how land invasions generated negative publicity for politicians, stimulated broad sympathy towards the landless and led to further invasions.…”

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“…The second reason is to examine the two explanations for land invasion in the literature, the supply and the demand side approaches. The supply side approach (Alston et al ., ; Alston et al ., , , ) assumes that the left‐wing governments promote land occupation according to the will of the median voters, and public agencies tend to validate a posteriori land invasion providing property rights and allocating credit to land invaders. The demand side approach stresses that poor peasants invade lands to feed themselves (Pacheco, ; Hidalgo et al ., ).…”

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Brazilian Land Tenure Conflicts: A Spatial Analysis

Barros

Faria

Junior

2012

J of Intl Development

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This paper analyses land occupation involving landless peasants in Brazil for the period 2000-2008. It is the first study to be undertaken at the national level, with a contemporary data span, using spatial analysis. Land occupation in Brazil is a state-based phenomenon and mainly a political issue. Our results show that land occupation grows with left-wing political violence and left-wing government's support through public agencies. The view that land invasion is caused by poverty does not apply to the Brazilian case.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Brazilian Land Tenure Conflicts: A Spatial Analysis

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Junior

2012

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“…Alston, Libecap, and Mueller (2008) show econometric evidence that presidential popularity in Brazil is affected in the expected directions by economic variables such as GDP growth, inflation, and interest rates. Although the average level of education in Brazil is very low, the absolute number of well-educated people is large.…”

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The Political Economy of Productivity in Brazil

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in recent decades. Although political institutions provide the president with incentives and the instruments to pursue monetary stability and fiscal discipline they simultaneously raise the costs of achieving those very objectives. The insulation of certain expenditures from presidential discretion necessitates the use of other policy options, such as high taxation levels and cuts in unprotected expenditures, which put a drag on productivity and growth. In a context of robust checks and balances and interest group fragmentation, a state overburdened by constitutional entitlements has resorted to massive increases in taxation. The resulting environment possesses both essential elements for sustainable economic growth and distortions that conspire against its realization. While some improvements in productivity and growth have occurred in the past decade, the pace has been slow and incremental. JEL Classifications: O25, O43

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“…The process through which beliefs change is not immediate and only consolidates slowly as outcomes match expectations over time. proportion of these have not managed to become independent producers and many have eventually sold their land, large scale redistribution has nevertheless taken place (Alston, Libecap and Mueller, 2010).…”

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Changing social contracts: Beliefs and dissipative inclusion in Brazil

Alston

Melo

Mueller

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Journal of Comparative Economics

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This paper originated as a paper presented at a Festschrift in honor of Thrainn Eggertsson in April 2012. The work of Eggertsson (2005) on the role of beliefs influencing social models and social equilibrium inspired our thoughts on social contracts with respect to inequality and redistribution. For comments we thank participants at the conference, Andy Baker and an anonymous referee. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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How Interest Groups with Limited Resources can Influence Political Outcomes: Information Control and the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Brazilian Land Tenure Conflicts: A Spatial Analysis

Brazilian Land Tenure Conflicts: A Spatial Analysis

The Political Economy of Productivity in Brazil

Changing social contracts: Beliefs and dissipative inclusion in Brazil

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