Demokratizacija demokratije kroz ustavotvorne narative: slučaj BiH
Democratization of democracy through the constitutional narrative: the case of B&H

Summary/Abstract: The author will present a part of the results of the research conducted within her Fulbright scholarship, within which she studied constitutional narratives in times of ‘crisis’. Attitudes about the necessity of democratization of democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be presented through analyzes and interpretation of the Dayton Constitution, relying on an unconventional procedure in political theory and political science, through interviews and focused surveys, which is more American than European practice. The author wonders why, 25 years after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the ‘unity of the political body’ not being achieved, and is the necessity of overcoming the defects of the Dayton Constitution a condition for that? Why are political freedoms in Bosnia and Herzegovina sacrificed on the altar of ethnic sovereignty and subordinated to demands for the establishment of mechanisms to protect the ‘vital national interest’ that has turned into a mechanism that prevents the representation of the whole political body? The author sought answers to some questions in the original American constitutional tradition.

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