After the democratic elections in 1990, local democracy in Croatia evolved through two stages. In the first phase, during the 1990s, a centralist model with limited powers of local government was put in place restricting the development of local democracy and reducing it to a lower, subordinate and narrower form of national representative democracy. During …
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Proposals of the new laws on higher education, science and universities, that were presented for public discussion and then withdrawn for revisions, were not only met with fierce public criticism from the scientific and academic community but also prompted a series of questions that require more detailed discussion. One of these is the question of …
Experienced and wise men know that democratic government has its rules and institutions in which we place our trust, but apart from faith in democratically elected rulers , there must also be a sharpened view of reality, application of rules and the impact of institutions. Democracy needs criticism and challenges. They are necessary for democracy …
