LEADER 03891nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910779296803321 005 20230802005201.0 010 $a0-8014-6455-2 010 $a0-8014-6408-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464089 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104003 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11454945 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10818359 035 $a(PQKB)11205853 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001500147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138347 035 $a(OCoLC)797833753 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28840 035 $a(DE-B1597)478398 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938323 035 $a(OCoLC)979970004 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464089 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138347 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10567632 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681701 035 $a(OCoLC)922998162 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104003 100 $a20120110d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLand and loyalty$b[electronic resource] $esecurity and the development of property rights in Thailand /$fTomas Larsson 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 225 1 $aCornell studies in political economy 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50419-9 311 $a0-8014-5081-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Figures and Tables -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Securitization and Institutional Development -- $t2. Capitalizing Thailand -- $t3. Weapon of a Weak State -- $t4. Conserving Smallholder Society -- $t5. Combating Specters and Communists -- $t6. Old Solutions, New Challenges -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aDomestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in economic benefits. But the country provides a puzzle: Thailand faced major security threats from colonial powers in the nineteenth century and from communism in the twentieth century, yet only in the latter case did the government respond with pro-development tactics.In Land and Loyalty, Tomas Larsson argues that institutional underdevelopment may prove, under certain circumstances, a strategic advantage rather than a weakness and that external threats play an important role in shaping the development of property regimes. Security concerns, he find, often guide economic policy. The domestic legacies, legal and socioeconomic, resulting from state responses to the outside world shape and limit the strategies available to politicians. While Larsson's extensive archival research findings are drawn from Thai sources, he situates the experiences of Thailand in comparative perspective by contrasting them with the trajectory of property rights in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines. 410 0$aCornell studies in political economy. 606 $aLand tenure$xEconomic aspects$zThailand 606 $aEconomic development$zThailand 606 $aCapitalism$zThailand 607 $aThailand$xEconomic policy 615 0$aLand tenure$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aEconomic development 615 0$aCapitalism 676 $a333.309593 700 $aLarsson$b Tomas$f1966-$01534901 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779296803321 996 $aLand and loyalty$93782760 997 $aUNINA