Constitutional Democracy between Majoritarianism and Constitutionalism Cover Image

Ustavna demokracija između majoritarizma i konstitucionalizma
Constitutional Democracy between Majoritarianism and Constitutionalism

Author(s): Arsen Bačić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu

Summary/Abstract: A number of contemporary states have undergone a transformation of their constitutions. One of the reasons is the process of increasing tensions between the majority democracy and constitutionalism. In a special way, this tension is the lot of the new democracies having problems both with a lack of democratic experience and a lack of genuine constitutionalism. Although the Republic of Croatia’s 1990 Constitution apparently uses the paradigm of constitutional democracy, it is becoming even more obvious that its ontology is to a large extent determined both by the general and the particular aspect of the tension between democracy and constitutionalism.

  • Issue Year: XXXV/1998
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 121-136
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian