<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article analyses the development of legislation regarding private property in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and summarizes available empirical data relating to property rights protection in the given period. Although the legislation took gradual steps towards diminishing the status of private property, no laws were passed that officially or entirely terminated its existence. The legislation of the 1960s set a status quo which codified property rights until the fall of the Communist regime in 1989. Most of the empirical data, which are available only for the 1980s, do not show any significant trend, corresponding with the unaltered situation in the legislation of that decade.</p></abstract>

This article analyses the development of legislation regarding private property in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and summarizes available empirical data relating to property rights protection in the given period. Although the legislation took gradual steps towards diminishing the status of private property, no laws were passed that officially or entirely terminated its existence. The legislation of the 1960s set a status quo which codified property rights until the fall of the Communist regime in 1989. Most of the empirical data, which are available only for the 1980s, do not show any significant trend, corresponding with the unaltered situation in the legislation of that decade.

Private Property in Communist Czechoslovakia

Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Department of Economics, Lipová 41a, Brno 602 00

Review of Economic Perspectives

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This article analyses the development of legislation regarding private property in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and summarizes available empirical data...

Private Property in Communist Czechoslovakia

Published Online: Oct 20, 2015

Page range: 327 - 343

Received: Feb 06, 2015

Accepted: Sep 03, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0023

Keywords
private property, property rights, legislation, empirical data, communism, Czechoslovakia

© 2015 Jan Demela et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Private Property in Communist Czechoslovakia

Published Online: Oct 20, 2015

Page range: 327 - 343

Received: Feb 06, 2015

Accepted: Sep 03, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0023

Keywordsprivate property, property rights, legislation, empirical data, communism, Czechoslovakia

© 2015 Jan Demela et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
private property, property rights, legislation, empirical data, communism, Czechoslovakia