Уставноправни осврт на теорију и појавне облике елитизма и популизма у Србији
Constitutional Review in Theory and Manifestation of Elitism and Populism in Serbia

Summary/Abstract: Republic of Serbia has the Constitution containing numerous principles of liberalism, which in practice is not applied to the full extent. Constitutional projection of the liberal society is not sufficient so that liberal democracy is realistically brought to life, nor the main principles regarding each individual – freedom and equality, for example. Time is required for liberal democracy, and that is not questionable. But such level of democracy requires virtue, quality of those who govern, lead the country, as well as an achievable plan and method, ideology, to which govern elite adhere. Transferred to this paper’s terminology, political elite is the one who makes decisions regarding all citizens of Serbia, and it must be the elite, the best, so that those decisions are fruitful for all. Governing the state is by itself, a complicated task. Leading a country which, from a lower level of liberalism and capitalism has to overgrow to a higher one, into liberal democracy, is even more complex, and in the case of Serbia, due to particular external and internal issues, exercising power is demanding in particular. Hence, the political elite has a liberal constitutional base according to which it makes decisions and undertakes power measures, but on the other hand, it has liberally undeveloped society, without authority of institutions, and based on various criteria degraded citizen. That gap between proscribed and realized liberalism and democracy, political elite attempts to overcome by populism. But in the long run, populism politics is not the road to the liberal democracy and the achievement of freedom and equality of all.

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