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ПОЛИТИЧКА ПРАВА У КОНТЕКСТУ ЉУДСКИХ ПРАВА
POLITICAL RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Author(s): Igor Živkovski
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Electoral systems
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: political rights; human rights; electoral right; suffrage; democracy;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the significance of political rights of citizens in a democratic society and in a legal system. Its first part deals with basic characteristics of political rights. After that, the attention is paid to the relation between political and human rights. A comprehensive overview of types of political rights is provided in the following part of the article, while in the last one the further fragmentation of the topic is conducted by elaboration of the relation between electoral and political rights.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Range: 171-188
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian