Locked in the Ledger: Legal Identity, Colonial Persistence, and the Politics of Real Estate Reform in Latin America
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Title: Locked in the Ledger: Legal Identity, Colonial Persistence, and the Politics of Real Estate Reform in Latin AmericaAuthors: Scott M. Brown, University of Puerto Rico (scott.brown@upr.edu) Daniel J. Hall, Texas Tech University (halldanielj@gmail.com) Stefan Holgersson, Linköping University (stefan.holgersson@liu.se) Description:This dataset accompanies the article “Locked in the Ledger: Legal Identity, Colonial Persistence, and the Politics of Real Estate Reform in Latin America”, which examines how legacy legal structures, notarial monopolies, and institutional exclusion impede property system reform in Latin America. Focusing on Puerto Rico and Mexico, and comparing them with advanced cadastral systems in Sweden and Germany, the paper argues that effective real estate governance hinges less on legal origin than on inclusive political institutions and administrative openness. The dataset includes merged panel data from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), the World Governance Indicators (WGI), and the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business (EODB) indicators. These are used to test hypotheses related to democratic institutions, legal formalism, and property system performance. Included are cleaned .xlsx files used for statistical modeling, with variables such as judicial constraints (v2x_jucon), freedom of expression (v2x_freexp), and polyarchy (v2x_polyarchy), alongside outcomes such as “Registering Property” (EODB), “Registering Process” (IPRI), and political stability scores (WGI). A reproducible Python script in Google Colab is also provided for OLS regression modeling and variance inflation diagnostics. Citation:Brown, S. M., Hall, D. J., & Holgersson, S. (2025). Locked in the Ledger: Legal Identity, Colonial Persistence, and the Politics of Real Estate Reform in Latin America [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15072375 Keywords:Property Rights, Land Governance, Legal Reform, Notarial Monopoly, Institutional Theory, Cadastral Systems, Real Estate Markets, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Comparative Law, Postcolonial Institutions License: CC BY 4.0 Contents: merged_vdem_ipri_2024.xlsx – V-Dem + IPRI merged panel vdem_rankings_2020_merged_WB_EODB.xlsx – V-Dem + EODB merged panel pv.xlsx – V-Dem + WGI panel cadastre_regression_script.ipynb – Python (Google Colab) script for regression models and VIF analysis
