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Annual Review of Political Science

Volume 28, 2025

Property Righting: The Politics of Rights Over Land and Labor

  • Margaret Levi1 and Emily Russell1
  • Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; email: [email protected]
  • Vol. 28:37-56 (Volume publication date June 2025)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on January 13, 2025
  • Copyright © 2025 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information.

Abstract

This essay focuses on property rights in land and labor, the ways in which they have been entangled since the development of early capitalism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the extent to which they have realized—or failed to realize—desiderata in addition to economic productivity and growth. The definition and enforcement of property rights may reflect the power relations within a society, but their realization depends on state laws and capacities. Transformations of property rights tend to follow changes in the balance of power among elites and in state capacity or occur as a response to effective resistance by those who are harmed or excluded.

Keyword(s): colonialism, labor rights, land reform, property rights, state capacity
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