CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Baricevic, Vedrana |
|---|---|
| Title | Constitutional Identity in the Socialist Yugoslavia and the Successor States: Did a Break with the Past Really Occur? |
| Summary | With the dissolution of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, new successor states adopted ethno-nationalist definitions of identity within their constitutions. Even though such a development was represented as a break with the communist past, by analyzing constitutional identity it will become clear that the nationalist ideology directly followed from the type of constitutional identity that was formed in the socialist Yugoslavia. While it is the prevailing line of thought that constitutional identity cannot be created in a non-democratic context, in this study it will be demonstrated that if certain conditions are met, this type of identity can be established even in a non-democratic regime, such as was the socialist Yugoslavia. In Yugoslav case these conditions were found in the ideology and quasi-constitutionalism characteristic for the given system. Because of the special position that ideology and the Constitution had in this regime, certain type of constitutional identity was formed. This constitutional identity created preconditions for the development of nationalist conceptions produced upon the dissolution of the socialist Yugoslav Federation. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic, Nenad |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/baricevic_vedrana.pdf |
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