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dc.contributor.authorFranco, Jennifer C.
dc.coverage.spatialPhillippinesen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-27T12:25:27Z
dc.date.available2014-06-27T12:25:27Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationFranco, 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.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4108
dc.description.abstractToday, 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.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherIDSen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS working papers;244
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren_GB
dc.subjectPovertyen_GB
dc.subjectRightsen_GB
dc.subjectRural Developmenten_GB
dc.titleMaking property rights accessible : social movements and legal innovation in the Philippinesen_GB
dc.typeIDS Working Paperen_GB
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen_GB
dc.identifier.koha152930


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