JUGOSLOVENSKI FEDERALIZAM PREMA USTAVU IZ 1974. GODINE – KONSOCIJACIJA ILI KONFEDERACIJA?
YUGOSLAV FEDERALISM ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1974 – CONSOCIATION OR CONFEDERATION

Summary/Abstract: The last constitution of socialist Yugoslavia, the Constitution of 1974, continued the trend that marked the evolution of Yugoslav federalism – the position of federal institutions was weakened, and the position of the republics and provinces was strengthened. All federal bodies, from the Assembly to the Constitutional Court, were formed according to the principle of parity of republics (and provinces). Our constitutional and political science has characterized such a model of federalism as the incorporation of confederal elements into the federal arrangement, while today it can be read that according to that constitution, Yugoslavia was a state of consociative democracy, according to the theory developed by Arend Lijphart. The aim of this paper is to present the basic theoretical propositions about the Yugoslav model of federal organization and examine whether such an organization can fit into the theoretical foundations of consociational democracy.

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