Original scientific paper
“REPUBLICAN MONARCHY” AND CONSTITUTIONAL ENGINEERING AT THE END OF THE CENTURY
Arsen Bačić
; Faculty of Law, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
Contemporary constitutional and political debates have for quite some time toyed with the concept of republican monarchy as a model which is becoming the common denominator of both presidential and parliamentary as well as mixed systems. Namely, the contemporary democratic state, regardless of its constitutional structure underlying it, has been asserting one of its aspects by which presidential, parliamentary and hybrid regimes have been regaining the efficacy they forfeited in late 1930s. In that respect, elected monarchs, i.e. republican monarchies are characteristic for old as well as new democracies. In the text, the author gives the reasons for the emergence of republican monarchy, its forms, advantages, disadvantages, and offshoots.
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105778
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Publication date:
21.3.1997.
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