caa a22 4500 606167927 CHVBK 20210128100704.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-014-0222-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-014-0222-y Anarchy, self-governance, and legal titling [Elektronische Daten] [Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili] Scholars and policymakers prescribe legal titling to improve prospects for economic development and political order. However, a public choice literature exists that has long recognized that self-governance often works well and that the state may not be able to improve upon local economic institutions at reasonable cost. Although the implication that legal titling should proceed with caution is seemingly straightforward, the literature on legal titling does not take anarchy seriously as a policy option. In addition, there is a public choice literature that presumes the state is the most important source of property rights. This essay fills this gap in the property rights literature by applying the concept of "efficient anarchy” to legal titling in Afghanistan. Original fieldwork evidence from rural Afghanistan suggests that anarchy of land governance is a better option than legal titling. The essay concludes by opening up the black box of state building by explaining why it often makes sense to sequence improvements in political capacity and political constraints prior to investing in legal titling. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Property rights nationallicence Legal titling nationallicence Governance nationallicence Anarchy nationallicence Afghanistan nationallicence Post-conflict reconstruction nationallicence Murtazashvili Ilia Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut Murtazashvili Jennifer Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 162/3-4(2015-03-01), 287-305 0048-5829 162:3-4<287 2015 162 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0222-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0222-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Murtazashvili Ilia Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Murtazashvili Jennifer Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 162/3-4(2015-03-01), 287-305 0048-5829 162:3-4<287 2015 162 11127