How Democracy Was Understood in the Course of Yugoslavia\u27s Development, 1918-1980

U razvitku Jugoslavije od 1918. do 1980. godine shvaćanje demokracije određeno je više potrebom stvaranja čvrstog političkog jedinstva nego razvijanjem arhitektonike pravne države koja počiva na afirmaciji zakona i poštovanju individualnih prava. Demokratska supstancija tražila se jednom u ideji jedinstvene narodnosti jugoslavenskih naroda, drugi put u naciji, a treći put u raznim varijantama proleterskog internacionalizma. Autor smatra da nedostatak tradicije liberalne demokracije kao i izostanak institucija civil society mogu ponovno premjestiti težište u razvijanju i shvaćanju demokracije na homogenizaciju političkog jedinstva umjesto na razvijanje liberalnih tendencija, a tek one, prema autorovu mišljenju, daju pravu vrijednost modernoj političkoj konstituciji.The way in which democracy was understood in the course of Yugoslavia\u27s development from 1918 to 1980 was determined by the need to create a firm political unity rathen than by the architectural growth of the law and order state with its core in the affirmation of laws and the respect for individual rights. The democratic substance was at one time sought in the nation, at a third time in the proleterian internationalism in its different variants. The author maintains that the lack of liberal democratic traditions and the fact that civil society institutions are missing may again move the gravity centre of the developing and understanding of democracy towards a homogenization of political unity instead towards the development of liberal tendencies which only, according to the author\u27s opingion, lend to a modern political constitution its genuine value