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The Political Price of Authoritarian Control: Evidence from Francoist Land Settlements in Spain
Ist Teil von
The Journal of politics, 2023-10, Vol.85 (4), p.1258-1274
Ort / Verlag
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Many authoritarian regimes use policy-based strategies of social control instead of more coercive tools like repression. When these regimes transition to democracy, do authoritarian successors pay a political price for such policies? This article examines the political cost of one common authoritarian policy of social control—land settlement schemes—in Spain. The Franco dictatorship initiated a decades-long program to ameliorate land pressure by resettling excess rural labor in hundreds of new government-created towns in colonization zones throughout the country. This article examines postdemocratization voting patterns in municipalities containing new towns compared to a counterfactual set of proximate similar municipalities that were also in government-created colonization zones. I find that land settlement caused a backlash once Spain returned to democracy: voters disproportionately supported the left at the expense of the regime’s successor parties. I attribute this to a legacy of authoritarian political and economic oversight and manipulation in regime-created towns.