Title:	The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa
Authors:	Onoma, Ato Kwamena
Keywords:	Institutions in Africa
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Cambridge
Description:	Why do some political leaders create and strengthen institutions such as title registries and land tribunals that secure property rights to land, while others neglect these institutions or destroy those that already exist? How do these institutions evolve once they have been established? This book answers these questions through spatial and temporal comparison of national and subnational cases from Botswana, Ghana, and Kenya, and, to a lesser extent, Zimbabwe. Ato Kwamena Onoma argues that the level of property rights security that leaders prefer depends on how they use land. However, the extent to which leaders’ institutional preferences are translated into actual institutions depends on the level of leaders’ capacity. Further, once established, these institutions through their very working can contribute to their own decline over time. This book is unique in revealing the political and economic reasons why some leaders, unlike others, prefer an environment of insecure rights even as land prices increase.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9825
ISBN:	978-0-521-76571-8
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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