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Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism

The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America

By: Gabriel Ondetti

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Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism

The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America

By: Gabriel Ondetti

Tax revenues have risen robustly across Latin America in recent decades, casting doubt on the region's reputation for having states too poor to finance economic and social development. However, dramatic differences persist in the magnitude of national tax burdens and public sector size, even among seemingly similar countries. This book examines the historical roots of this variation. Through in-depth case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, as well as evidence from Ecuador and Guatemala, Ondetti reveals the lasting impact of historical episodes of redistributive reform that threatened property rights. Ironically, where such episodes were most extensive, they hindered future taxation by prompting economic elites and social conservatives to mobilize politically against state intervention, forming peak business associations, rightist parties, and other formal and informal organizations that have proven to be remarkably enduring.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108915604

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Land, Protest, and Politics

The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil

By: Gabriel Ondetti

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The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil

By: Gabriel Ondetti

Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.

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Penn State Press

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0271047844

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Land, Protest, and Politics

The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil

By: Gabriel A. Ondetti

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The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil

By: Gabriel A. Ondetti

Analyzes the development of the movement for agrarian reform in Brazil, and attempts to explain the major moments of change in its growth trajectory, from the late 1970s to 2006"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State University Press

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0271033533

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9780271033532

Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism

The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America

By: Gabriel Ondetti

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The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America

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Land, Protest, and Politics

The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil

By: Gabriel Ondetti

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Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism

Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism

Land, Protest, and Politics

Land, Protest, and Politics

Land, Protest, and Politics

Land, Protest, and Politics

Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism

Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism

Land, Protest, and Politics

Land, Protest, and Politics

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