Ndërtimi i shtetit ligjor pas komunizmit: një perspektivë elitiste
Building a state of the rule of law in post-communism: An elitist perspective

Summary/Abstract: The rule of law concept has become a crucial factor in building democratic political systems and societies they represent. It seems that these societies have now internalized this element. On the other hand, developing countries, and post communist countries more specifically, have experienced many difficulties in building a new system based on the democratic model. The aim of this study is to analyze and explain the influence of an important factor in this process: the role of political elite behavior and the importance of institutional choices made right after the fall of the communist regime. The first part deals mainly with the conceptualization of the rule of law and the debates raised upon it. This will seek to define the concept and how it is used in this study. The second part analyzes the interaction between this concept and the communist regime and the role it had in those societies. Then, through a comparative approach, the central part of the study analyzes and explains how the strategies of institutional choices of the elite and that political conflict that characterized the latter, has influenced the process of rule of law consolidation in the first decade of the transition.

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