Human societies and their politics are deeply rooted in the land. Land shapes politics
through its material nature and distribution across society, by serving as a mechanism of …

Environmental and land defenders play a crucial role in attempts to slow down
environmental change and address power inequalities in land-use and resource …

Examining a key puzzle in the study of electoral violence, this study asks how elites organize
violence and why ordinary citizens participate. While existing theories of electoral violence …

A growing body of literature studies the personalization of power in authoritarian regimes.
Yet, how institutions can become a credible constraint to dictatorial rule is less widely …

Mass opposition to authoritarian governments is caused by economic grievances and
factors which facilitate mobilization. In this article, I explore these competing explanations of …

Conventional wisdom holds that landed elites oppose democratization. Whether they fear
rising wages, labor mobility or land redistribution, landowners have historically repressed …

The explosion of cities and megacities has increased scholars' and policy markers' attention
to the effects such changes might have on conflict: increasingly, urban environments may …

Land is central to violent conflict. Over the period 2000-2015, land was an element in over
half of violent conflicts (Bruce, 2017), and “where there is conflict, land and natural resources …

We examine how weather variability affects agricultural landownership rates in Africa, where
at least half of the population depends on agriculture to earn a livelihood. In the absence of …

How are patterns of armed control and dispute by armed actors related to land
concentration, land property rights, and distribution? We argue that armed actors affect land …