Ústavněprávní vymezení práva na samosprávu ve vybraných zemích střední Evropy

This paper analyses the constitutional definition of the right to self-government in the Republic of Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Swiss Confederation. These are Central European countries in which there was no legal discontinuity between 1948 and 1989. The content of the right to territorial self-government is therefore broader and more detailed in the countries under review than in the Czech Republic. The article aims in particular to present those aspects of the right to self-government that do not exist in the Czech Republic. The common feature of the countries under consideration is the institutional protection of local self-government, under which the municipality as a type, and not each municipality, is protected. On the other hand, differences include the different content and degree of guarantees for local government units at the federal level in relation to the state and cantonal levels. The federal level is strongest in the Republic of Austria, while it is weakest in the Swiss Co