Political Science ETDs

Publication Date

1-22-1970

Abstract

This paper is designed to show what happens when reform occurs, understanding that the probability of occurrence on a wide scale is constantly becoming greater. While the traditional society in Chile remains little changed, there are some isolated but interesting experiments in land reform taking place. In this monograph we will analyze some of them to determine what problems confront the reform institutions and new colonists who have been given land. This approach assumes that the political decision to reform has been taken - which, indeed, it has on the experiments we will describe. Even though reform is not a matter for technicians to propose and declare, technicians will have to cope with reform once it arrives. And it will fall to them to recommend and make plans. The political power capable of reform in no way guarantees its success. At the moment of reform all the problems of creating viable new institutions to take the place of the old ones remain. Even though we will be describing land reform experiments in a traditional society, we are not arguing that all the problems encountered and to be described might come to pass if reform should occur across the board. But neither will they all be irrelevant. And the Alliance for Progress and all land reform programs in yet traditional societies in Latin America argue that reform across the board - as in the Mexican, Bolivian, and Cuban cases - is not the only way reform can happen.

Degree Name

Political Science

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Political Science

First Committee Member (Chair)

Illegible

Second Committee Member

Harold V. Rhodes

Third Committee Member

Ronald Howard Dolkart

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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