Shared Island, Divergent Institutions: The Dominican Republic as Counterfactual Evidence for Legal Infrastructure Investment in Postcolonial Civil Law Systems

Author: Calderon-Abreu, Theany; LaTortue, Paul; Welker, Adam; Brown, Scott

Publisher: Zenodo

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17677141

Source: https://zenodo.org/records/17677141/files/Figure2_PPR_Collapse.pdf

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Figu e 2: Physical P ope y Righ s Di e gence - Dominican Republic s. Hai i
No e: Physical P ope y Righ s (PPR) componen measu es land egis a ion, p ope y p o ec ion, and c edi access (0-10 scale).
Sco es below 1.0 indica e nea - o al ins i u ional ailu e. Sou ce: P ope y Righ s Alliance (2025).

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