Influence of the Elections and Electoral Systems on Dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - The Case Study of Slovenia and Croatia
Abstract
The author is concerned with the influence of elections and electoral systems on dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at example of Slovenia and Croatia in his contribution from the field of political science. He analyses the role of elections and electroral systems in the republic parliaments of Slovenia and Croatia on the basis of methodological procedures and theoretical concepts.
It is done primarily by the transformation of allocation of political power before and after the elections and also by the consequences of the elections. Together with it the reader is briefed by the basic facts about dissolution of Yugoslavia and emergence of selected successor countries.
The infuence of elections at the level of republics consisted in the legitimization of transformation of allocation of political power toward to the republics and in the legitimization of democratic way above all. The influence of electoral systems consisted in proportion of the results above all.
The elections at the level of republics simplified the decentralization of Yugoslavia leading to its dissolution. Elections and electoral systems was significant part of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the independence of its parts.
The desitegration process was far more complex and its pure reduction to the election would have made it simplex considerably.