Landing Votes: Representation and Land Reform in Latin America

Landing Votes explores the conditions under which democratic Latin American governments address persistent political and economic inequities. The book points out a surprising 'coincidence': nearly every extension of suffrage to the rural poor occurred at

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Nancy D. Lapp

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Landing Votes: Representation and Land Reform in Latin America

LANDING VOTES

© Nancy D. Lapp, 2004

First published 2004 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 1–4039–6504–8 hardback Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lapp, Nancy Diane. Landing votes : representation and land reform in Latin America / Nancy D. Lapp. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1–4039–6504–8 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Land reform—Latin America—Case studies. 2. Suffrage— Latin America—Case studies. 3. Rural poor—Latin America—Political activity—Case studies. I. Title. HD1333.L29L37 2003 324.6⬘2⬘098—dc22

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Acknowledgments

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Chapter 1

Introduction: Connecting Suffrage and Land Reform

1

Chapter 2

Cases of Reform: An Overview

23

Chapter 3 Chile: Accelerating Reforms from Alessandri to Allende

53

Chapter 4

Venezuela: Democratization and Reforms

85

Chapter 5

Brazil: The Land Reform that Wasn’t

119

Chapter 6

Conclusions

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Appendix Lists of Poli