ДА ЛИ ЈЕ СРБИЈИ СТРАН ДВОДОМНИ ПАРЛАМЕНТАРИЗАМ - СОЦИОЛОШКО-ПОЛИТИКОЛОШКА АНАЛИЗА
THE STUDY OF BICAMERALISM IN SERBIA AND YUGOSLAVIA – A POLITOCOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: Through the central discussion of this paper, which is focused around the history of the bicameral Parliament in Serbia and Yugoslavia, the authors try to answer the question whether this type of parliamentary organization can solve the problem of deep-rooted misunderstanding between the elite and the people, or citizens, in Serbian society today. This paper provides chronologically processed and politico-sociologically analyzed episodes of bicameralism in 19th century Serbia and federal Yugoslavia. In this paper, the theme of Serbian political culture was a framework from which explanations about the inability of evolutionary development of institutions and democracy have been drawn. Hence the continuing conflict between the elite and the people due to which all parliamentary forms and institutional arrangements in Serbia are unstable and apparently incomplete. In the context of bicameralism the authors examine how the shape of a bicameral parliament contributed to or reduced the level of conceptual misunderstanding between the elite and the people in Serbia. Conclusions on the institutional structure and design of the Serbian state indicate that it was kept within the narrow and particular interests of political groups which in synergy with anarchic political culture and great socio- ideological divides, made it impossible to solve the problem of institutional design on a long term basis and in a sustainable manner. The behavior of political elites throughout Serbian history has widened the gap between the elite and the people and disabled the opportunity of establishing a legitimate and a well-functioning parliament.

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