Abstract The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights themselves. We use the case of Lagos to analyse property rights as ‘analogue’ rather than ‘digital’ in nature – things that only exist by degree, where a dynamic urban situation renders the distinction between a right and a claim much less clear than conventional approaches suggest. We argue that property taxation plays important and unanticipated roles in efforts to realize property rights. To fully understand attempts to construct rights it is necessary to analyse the range of payments, documents, social relations and other strategic moves that people make to thicken property claims in contexts of ‘radical insecurity’.

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厚索赔和薄权利：税收和拉各斯类似产权的构建

摘要 权属保障对发展和福祉的重要性往往被归结为产权如何保证权利的问题，而忽视了产权本身的竞争和分层性质。我们使用拉各斯的案例来分析产权本质上是“模拟的”而不是“数字的”——事物只是在一定程度上存在，在动态的城市情况下，权利和索赔之间的区别比传统方法所建议的要清楚得多. 我们认为，财产税在实现财产权的努力中发挥着重要且出乎意料的作用。为了充分理解构建权利的尝试，有必要分析人们在“极度不安全”的背景下为加强财产要求而采取的付款、文件、社会关系和其他战略举措的范围。