Създаване на демократични конституции в Източна Европа в годините на преход
Making Democratic Constitutions in Eastern Europe in the Years of Transition

An Attempt at comparative analysis

Author(s): Iskra Baeva
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, International Law, Comparative Law
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: constitutions; constitution-making process; transition; Eastern Bloc
Summary/Abstract: The drafting of new constitutions in the countries which, after 1989, began societal transformations from Soviet-style state socialism to parliamentary democracies and a market economies, represents an important institutional step towards the consolidation of the new democratic system. This, like the direction of change, is a general process that had its premises in earlier developments but was supported and guided from outside – usually by Western European and American institutions. At the same time, if one follows the specific process of constitution-making in different former Eastern Bloc countries, it is easy to see that it takes place at different speeds and under different political conditions. The differences in this process motivated me to trace in my exposition the distinctions in the constitution-making process in transition countries, but not so much with regard to the legal as to the historical traditions in the countries of the Central European region, on the one hand, and the Balkans on the other.

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