Review article
A Comparative Analysis of the Content of the Statutes of the Political Parties in Croatia (1991)
Dejan Jović
; Faculty of political science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The formulating of the new political parties' programs and statutes in Croatia is considered to be a less important normative aspect of political activitiy. Yet a comparative analysis of the content of the statutes articulated by the political parties in Croatia at the time when they were formed reveals the prevailing tendencies in the political practice in that period as well as the level concomitant of experience in political organizing. Some of the findings point to significant differences among the emerging political parties in matters such as the treatment of the members' rights and duties, attitudes towards internal party discipline, the procedure related to affiliation, the authority pertaining to the parties' presidents, the inclusionof youth in the forming of party policy, models of decision-making, and attitudes towards earlier parties in Croatian political history. The author stresses that his analysis does not refer to the time of writing but to the situation at the very beggining of the institutionalizing of party pluralism. He believes that his results may offer important insights for some future classification of the Croatian party system.
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111909
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Publication date:
1.3.1993.
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