dc.contributor.author | Franco, Jennifer C. | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Phillippines | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-27T12:25:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-27T12:25:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Franco, J.C. (2005) Making property rights accessible : social movements and legal innovation in the Philippines. Working paper series, 244. Brighton: IDS. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4108 | |
dc.description.abstract | Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability
of a much heftier set of specialised legal resources than ever before, however, claiming legal land rights
remains extremely difficult. Pro-market scholars cite difficult legal problems as a reason to turn away from
state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model. Yet, as this paper shows,
a closer look at actual dynamics around land reform in the Philippines suggests that political-legal
problems associated with implementation of the 1988 agrarian reform law can be overcome under certain
conditions. It is argued that rural poor claimants must have access to a support structure for political-legal
mobilisation, particularly “rights-advocacy organisation”, and they must adopt an integrated political-legal
strategy, in order to effectively push existing constitutional-juridical openings and institutional reforms in
favour of land redistribution. An integrated political-legal strategy is one that is capable of activating state
agrarian reform law, exploiting independent state actors’ pro-reform initiatives, and resisting the legal and
extra-legal manoeuvres of anti-reform elites. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | IDS | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS working papers;244 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdf | en_GB |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en_GB |
dc.subject | Poverty | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rights | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rural Development | en_GB |
dc.title | Making property rights accessible : social movements and legal innovation in the Philippines | en_GB |
dc.type | IDS Working Paper | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en_GB |
dc.identifier.koha | 152930 | |