Ryzhova N.P., Guzej Ya.S., Karbainov N.I. Property right over land: seizures, recourse abundance and features of enforcement in the Russian Far East. Ojkumena. Regional researches, 2019, Issue 1, pp. 114-122.

Abstract

Do land seizures contribute to the formation of private property? Can seizures in some conditions become the foundation for the private ownership of land, and in others - prevent its formation? What incentives and conditions affecting them contribute to rejecting or approaching the ideal, if such exists, private property? The article is an attempt to answer these questions, referring to the experience of the colonization of the Russian Far East. For these purposes, the authors critically use the Alston, Miller et al model in which property rights universally evolve along with the progress of colonization. That is initially the land of open access is seized; then, thanks to club enforcement, de facto property is formed; Further, the state, guided by the incentive to extract rent, offers an enforcement that consolidates de jure property. The article discusses that specific national and / or local grounds change incentives and, as a result, property relations acquire cultural specificity. With regard to the case of the Russian Far East, this means that although the seizures contributed to the formation of the institution of private property, it was by no means identical to the institutions that were formed during the development of other open access lands