Original scientific paper

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY BETWEEN MAJORITARIANISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM

Arsen Bačić ; Faculty of Law, University of Split, Split, Croatia

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.

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Hrčak ID:

32311

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32311

Publication date:

3.9.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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