Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power”
Access to land is often presented as a matter of simple national legal norms. This article develops an empirical analysis of how the conditions of access to farm land were set up in the wake of the restoration of private property as part of the transition to a market economy, and then changed follow...
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| description | Access to land is often presented as a matter of simple national legal norms. This article develops an empirical analysis of how the conditions of access to farm land were set up in the wake of the restoration of private property as part of the transition to a market economy, and then changed following the accession of Central European countries to the EU. It shows how legal and social norms overlap, combine and contradict each other, reflecting the evolving power dynamics between land holders, land owners or farmers, land-market control agencies and national authorities. Land concentration is the result of competition between social actors to capture and consolidate a “bundle of rights” over land and capital. Recent changes in land-tenure regulations have eased the emergence of “webs of power” that are characteristic of a new agrarian capitalism. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d22f26e703d54d3dafc0d61822cddfa62025-08-20T02:30:28ZengInstytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii NaukWieś i Rolnictwo0137-16732657-52132025-04-014 (205)133510.53098/wir.2024.4.205/01906Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power”Marie-Claude Maurel0https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8641-7989Marie-Claude Maurel, Professor, em., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France, member of Académie d’Agriculture de FranceAccess to land is often presented as a matter of simple national legal norms. This article develops an empirical analysis of how the conditions of access to farm land were set up in the wake of the restoration of private property as part of the transition to a market economy, and then changed following the accession of Central European countries to the EU. It shows how legal and social norms overlap, combine and contradict each other, reflecting the evolving power dynamics between land holders, land owners or farmers, land-market control agencies and national authorities. Land concentration is the result of competition between social actors to capture and consolidate a “bundle of rights” over land and capital. Recent changes in land-tenure regulations have eased the emergence of “webs of power” that are characteristic of a new agrarian capitalism.https://kwartalnik.irwirpan.waw.pl/wir/article/view/982access to landproperty rightsland ownershipbundle of rightswebs of power |
| spellingShingle | Marie-Claude Maurel Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power” Wieś i Rolnictwo access to land property rights land ownership bundle of rights webs of power |
| title | Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power” |
| title_full | Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power” |
| title_fullStr | Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power” |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power” |
| title_short | Challenging Access to Land in Central European Countries: Some Comments on the “Bundle of Rights” and “Webs of Power” |
| title_sort | challenging access to land in central european countries some comments on the bundle of rights and webs of power |
| topic | access to land property rights land ownership bundle of rights webs of power |
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