Böcker av Jennifer Brick (University of Pittsburgh) Murtazashvili

This book explains how people define and enforce property rights when they cannot rely on the government to do so, why governments are unable or unwilling to recognize property rights, and why legal titling is unable to improve economic livelihoods in fragile states.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. This book explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive.