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PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC IN ITALIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM 1948-2006
Damir Grubiša
; Fakultet političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The place and the role of the president of the Republic in the Italian
political system are looked into. The starting points are the specific
features of the historical evolution of the position of the head of state from the monarchist to the republican context. The institution of the Italian president of the Republic is also specific in the context of the West-European political systems, due to the acceptance of the
monarchist prerogatives in the constitutional role of the president of
the Republic to the anomalous position of the head of state: they belong to the model of parliamentary political systems but at the same time possess some competences typical for semipresidential systems.
The author outlines the historico-political and constitutional grounds
of the peculiar position of the president of the republic in the context
of the recurrent crises of the political system with unstable governments and volatile coalitions, which gives the president of the state a special, central role as the political arbiter super partes, the guardian of the Constitution and the political guarantor of the country’s stability in the permanent legitimation crisis of the Italian political parties during the transition from the First to the Second Republic. Some new variables are introduced into the analysis of the political role of the president of the Republic that significantly differs from the constitutional role, due to the evolution of political communication and the new forms of political conflict which require from the president of the Republic to adjust to the new rules of the democratic game.
Ključne riječi
president of the republic; political system; Italian Constitution; political crisis; crisis of political party system; corruption in Italian society
Hrčak ID:
20883
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Datum izdavanja:
29.4.2006.
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