scholarly journals Reallocating wealth? Insecure property rights and agricultural investment in rural China

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 207-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Leight
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Agricultural Investment ◽  
Insecure Property Rights

A Weapon of the Weak? Shareholding, Property Rights and Villager Empowerment in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 131-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karita Kan
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Collective Property

AbstractAs urbanization continues to fuel land and property conflicts in rural China, shareholding has been promoted as a reform in property rights that would enhance bottom-up control in the governance of collective assets. The recent proliferation of community-based shareholding companies has been credited for giving villagers new identities as shareholders, which entitle them to vote, receive their share of collective profits, and elect the managers of their wealth. This paper critically appraises these reforms and offers a contrarian perspective to singular narratives of villager empowerment. While shareholding clarifies villagers’ rights of control, income and transfer in collective property, the effective exercise of such powers is often forestalled on the ground by the concentration of power in elite hands. To the extent that formal and informal constraints on cadre power remain tenuous, shareholding could function as a vehicle for the powerful to appropriate collective wealth rather than as a weapon of the weak.

Land Invasions, Insecure Property Rights and Production Decisions

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Orellano ◽  
Paulo Furquim Azevedo ◽  
Maria Sylvia Saes ◽  
Viviam Ester Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Production Decisions ◽  
Insecure Property Rights
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