Constitutional aspects of protection of democratic principles in EU countries

Diploma thesis "Constitutional aspects of protection of democratic principles in EU countries", examines the occurrence of aspects in EU constitutions, which protect constitutions from paradox of democracy. Paradox of democracy is an attribute of democracy, when democracy itself within its own democratic processes can transform to an undemocratic regime. The thesis aims to the occurrence of constitutional aspects, which can provide protection against the paradox of democracy. The research is based on created model situation, which provides a base for observation of relevancy of individual aspects of constitutional protections of democratic principles. From conducted research the diploma thesis provides evaluation of potential strength of each aspect of constitutional protection of democratic principles, and also provides ranking of EU countries in this area. The end of the thesis deals with three countries, which ended last in the ranking and tries to evaluate the risk of change to undemocratic regime, on base on occurrence of extremist parties in parliaments of these countrie