Original scientific paper

Croatian Parliament in the Period of Democratic Transition

Nenad Zakošek ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In the processes of democratic transition in Central and Eastern Europe parliaments play an important role. The author examines the problems of functioning of the Croatian Sabor in the period 1990-1993. In particular he analyzes the changes of the constitutional structure of Sabor, development of the post-socalist parliamentary party system, the main problems of constitutional transformation and the policy agenda of legislation. He demonstrates that a weaker role played by the parliament in Croatia results from the Croatian imbalanced party sytem and an unstructured character of the ruling party, a strong presidential institution and the consequences of a deep ethnic cleavage between Croats and Serbs in Croatia.

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Hrčak ID:

111117

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111117

Publication date:

1.12.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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