Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war

IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-11 DOI:10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101618
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This paper studies the effects of various types of land reform on the voting of the rural poor in a developing, largely agrarian economy such as 1930s Spain. Using municipal-level electoral results in a region with intense but heterogeneous land-related interventions, we find that permanent transfers of land had the greatest positive impact on voting for leftist candidates, followed by temporary transfers of land aimed at alleviating the problem of seasonal unemployment. Poorly planned temporary transfers of land without adequate funding for beneficiaries made the landless more vulnerable to landowner control and had the opposite result. Our results show that the secret ballot might be insufficient to guarantee the free vote of economically dependent landless laborers. They also show that land reforms with poor support for beneficiaries might backfire.

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战时欧洲的土地改革和农业社会主义:内战前 1930 年代西班牙的证据
本文研究了在 20 世纪 30 年代的西班牙这样一个以农业为主的发展中经济体中,各种类型的土地改革对农村贫困人口投票的影响。我们利用在一个与土地相关的干预措施密集但不尽相同的地区举行的市级选举结果,发现永久性土地转让对左派候选人的投票产生了最大的积极影响,其次是旨在缓解季节性失业问题的临时性土地转让。计划不周、没有为受益人提供足够资金的临时性土地转让使无地者更容易受到地主的控制,结果适得其反。我们的研究结果表明,无记名投票可能不足以保证经济上依赖土地的无地劳工的自由投票权。这些结果还表明,对受益人支持不足的土地改革可能会适得其反。
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期刊介绍: Explorations in Economic History provides broad coverage of the application of economic analysis to historical episodes. The journal has a tradition of innovative applications of theory and quantitative techniques, and it explores all aspects of economic change, all historical periods, all geographical locations, and all political and social systems. The journal includes papers by economists, economic historians, demographers, geographers, and sociologists. Explorations in Economic History is the only journal where you will find "Essays in Exploration." This unique department alerts economic historians to the potential in a new area of research, surveying the recent literature and then identifying the most promising issues to pursue.
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