Local effects of the new land rush: How capital inflows transformed rural Russia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wengle, Susanne A.
• 署名单位: University of Notre Dame
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12287
• 发表日期: 2018
• 关键词: economic-development; agriculture; governance; countries; reserves; outlook; putin

摘要

Rising global prices for agricultural commodities have led to the inflow of capital to rural economies and to transfers of land ownership to new agricultural operators (NAOs) in developing and post-Soviet countries. How capital inflows affect rural communities is often explained with the variable of institutional strength, an explanation aligned with the good governance approach to economic development: Capital inflows have positive developmental effects, if strong domestic institutions vet land deals and regulate NAOs. Contra the focus on institutional parameters as exogenous variables, this article highlights the role of political projects in shaping local outcomes and driving institutional change. Evolving political priorities are important to understand domestic rural transformations because they lead to interventions that privilege some actors as agents of change, while others are sidelinedhence transforming local economies. This theoretical suggestion is based on a study of Russia's rural transformation that followed a significant influx of capital.