James Putzel is a Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Crisis States Research Centre at the

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universities. His research focus has been on agrarian reform, social capital, political economy of development and crisis and fragile states. He is perhaps best known for his book: ''A Captive Land: the Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines''.Review of A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines by Gerard Clarke; Third World Quarterly, 1992, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 741-742

Publications

Putzel, James (1992) A Captive Land: the Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines, London: Catholic Institute for International Relations; New York: Monthly Review Press Putzel, James and Morales Jr, Horacio, eds. (2002) Power in the Village: Agrarian Reform, Rural Politics, Institutional Change and Globalisation. University of Philippines Press.

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