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The Bureaucratic Impact of the mobilization for Land. Lessons from the Liberal Republic
Impacto burocrático de la movilización por la tierra. Lecciones de la república liberal;
Impacto burocrático da mobilização pela terra. Lições da república liberal
Autor
Plata-Caviedes, Juan Camilo
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Resumen
The State-building process must be understood through the study of the agencies in charge of each of its regulatory functions. One such function is the regulation of property rights. During the Liberal Republic, as a reaction to the massive mobilization,new tools to better regulate property rights were promoted: colonization, parceling, the award of public lands and, at the end, a new legal framework. In spite of its purposes, they faced and failed to solve the challenges every organization experiences when growing: resource scarcity, controlling its agents, and keeping technical simplicity.