'Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb'
Abstract
Mnoge suvremene države trpe transformaciju svojeg ustava. Jedan je od razloga i proces narastajućih tenzija između većinske demokracije i konstitucionalizma. Na poseban su način s ovom tenzijom sučeljene nove demokracije koje imaju problema, kako s pomanjkanjem demokratskog iskustva tako i s deficitom stvarnog konstitucionalizma. Premda Republika Hrvatska svojim ustavom iz 1990. godine jasno iskazuje paradigmu ustavne demokracije, sve je očiglednije da i njezinu ontologiju uvelike određuju, kako opći tako i posebni aspekti tenzije između demokracije i konstitucionalizma.A number of contemporary states have undergone a transformation of their constitutions. One of the reasons is the process of increasing tensions between the majority democracy and constitutionalism. In a special way, this tension is the lot of the new democracies having problems both with a lack of democratic experience and a lack of genuine constitutionalism. Although the Republic of Croatia’s 1990 Constitution apparently uses the paradigm of constitutional democracy, it is becoming even more obvious that its ontology is to a large extent determined both by the general and the particular aspect of the tension between democracy and constitutionalism
