Suvremeni homo politicus u izradi propisa
A contemporary homo politicus in drafting regulations

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the point of some authors about the fundamental crisis in which contemporary homo politicus stands, and from the claim that citizens are becoming increasingly passive recipients of political content and decreasingly active participants in the political process, the paper tries to explore the merits of such an understanding by analyzing reports on the conducted public consultations which have been published on the central state website for e-consultation as one of the methods of public participation in the process of drafting laws, other regulations and acts in the Republic of Croatia since the launch of this portal in 2015. Assuming that the judicial system, whose functioning is characterized by a negative public opinion, acts as an incentive to the public to present their comments (suggestions and opinions) during the consultation, the object of this research are reports on the conducted public consultations in the field of justice. The paper begins with the thesis that the number of commentaries and their applicants participating in public consultations in the process of drafting laws, other regulations and acts is constantly increasing and that the public's interest in participating in this process is not reducing. After the first, introductory part of the paper, the second part tries to briefly outline the theoretical starting point of public participation in the process of policy making, after which the third part of the paper presents a valid normative framework for public consultation in the process of drafting laws, other regulations and acts in the Republic of Croatia. After the fourth section analyzes available reports on the conducted consultations on draft laws, other regulations and acts in the area of justice, the fifth part of the paper deals with the concluding considerations.

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