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Violence and the development of property rights to land in the Brazilian Amazon
Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Mueller, Bernardo - In: The frontiers of the new institutional economics : …, (pp. 145-163). 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001402103
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A model of rural conflict : violence and land reform policy in Brazil
Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Mueller, Bernardo - In: Environment and development economics 4 (1999) 2, pp. 135-160
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001446352
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Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy : The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil
Alston, Lee J. - 2010
We extend the literature on interest group behavior and policy outcomes by examining how groups with limited resources (votes and campaign contributions) effectively influence government by manipulating media information to voters. Voters in turn lobby politicians to implement the group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145238
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Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy : The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil
Alston, Lee J. - 2010
We extend the literature on interest group behavior and policy outcomes by examining how groups with limited resources (votes and campaign contributions) effectively influence government by manipulating media information to voters. Voters in turn lobby politicians to implement the group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462785
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Land Reform Policies, the Sources of Violent Conflict, and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Mueller, Bernardo - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 39 (2000) 2, pp. 162-188
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005298598
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How Interest Groups with Limited Resources can Influence Political Outcomes: Information Control and the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil.
Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Mueller, Bernardo - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2005
In this paper we examine how an interest group with limited resources (votes and campaign contributions) nevertheless effectively influenced political policy through the control of information to general voters. Voters in turn lobbied politicians to take actions desired by the interest group....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005148387
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BOOK REVIEWS - Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier
Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Mueller, Bernardo; … - In: Journal of economic literature 39 (2001) 2, pp. 617-618
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10006832171
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The regulated economy: A historical approach to political economy
Goldin, Claudia; Libecap, Gary D.; Alston, Lee J. - In: Journal of economic literature 33 (1995) 2, pp. 871
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10006860302
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Collins, William J.; Fishback, Price; Higgs, Robert; … - In: The journal of economic history 67 (2007) 4, pp. 1081-1082
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10007887812
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Land Reform Policies, the Sources of Violent Conflict, and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Mueller, Bernardo - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 39 (2000) 2, pp. 162-188
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10006455441