Land reform has been employed as a component of counterinsurgency strategies to inoculate peasants against rebel appeals by giving peasants their own land. However, the remedial effects of land reform can be undermined by right wing violence and rebel violence intended to subvert land reform implementation. We used municipio level data on land reform and election results from El Salvador to test propositions on the competing effects of land reform and political violence - right wing and rebel - on the distribution of popular support between the regime versus the rebels versus anti-reform parties in the regime. We find consistent evidence across three elections that “land to the tiller” forms of agrarian reform do increase support for the regime while right wing violence does erode support for reformist parties.

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土地改革与镇压镇压：来自萨尔瓦多的证据

土地改革已被用作平叛战略的一部分，通过给予农民自己的土地来使农民免受叛乱的影响。然而，右翼暴力和旨在破坏土地改革实施的叛乱暴力可能会削弱土地改革的补救效果。我们使用萨尔瓦多有关土地改革和选举结果的市级数据来检验关于土地改革和政治暴力（右翼和叛乱分子）对政权与叛乱分子与反改革政党之间民众支持分布的竞争影响的命题在政权中。我们在三场选举中发现了一致的证据，表明“耕者有其田”形式的土地改革确实增加了对政权的支持，而右翼暴力确实削弱了对改革派政党的支持。