Demokracija: svjetski model ili nacionalna tradicija?

DEMOCRACY: WORLD MODEL OR NATIONAL TRADITION?

The author criticizes the universalism of democracy as a world model. He argues that World War One has been insufficiently explored from the perspective of the clash of two democratic concepts. The outcome of that war heralded the long-term victory of the Franco-American universalist concept of democracy over the traditional British concept of democracy. This greatly influenced the political and philosophical understanding of democracy as the universalist elements of democratic constitutions have prevailed, while the awareness of the historically evolved institutions of democracy has been suppressed. The author shows that the emergence of fundamental rights had nothing to do with their universalist natural-law version since in England and Germany there have been pre-forms rooted in the specific legal traditions of those countries or regions. Since the creation of a world democratic state is not feasible, there is no genuine significance of the universalist democracy. In his conclusion, the author promotes the acceptance of the traditional concept of democracy modelled after the British democracy, which would strengthen the UN and international law. This would be particularly important in today's circumstances and conducive to the acknowledgment of various traditions and consequently to a variety of systems of government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autor kritizira univerzalizam demokracije kao svjetskog modela. On zastupa tezu da se Prvi svjetski rat premalo proučava iz aspekta borbe dvije demokratske koncepcije. Rezultat tog rata značio je i dalekosežnu pobjedu američko-francuske univerzalističke koncepcije demokracije nad britanskim tradicionalnim konceptom demokracije. Za političko i filozofsko shvaćanje demokracije ovo je imalo važnu posljedicu da su univerzalistički elementi demokratskih ustava dospjeli u prvi plan, a potisnuta je svijest o povijesno izraslim institucijama demokracije. Autor pokazuje da pojava temeljnih prava nije vezana uz njihovu univerzalističku prirodno-pravnu verziju jer su u Engleskoj i u Njemačkoj postojali raniji oblici utemeljeni na specifičnim pravnim tradicijama tih zemalja, odnosno regija. Kako nema mogućnosti za svjetsku demokratsku državu, nema ni stvarnog važenja univerzalističke demokracije. Autor se zaključno zalaže za prihvaćanje tradicionalnog poimanja demokracije po uzoru na onu britansku, čime bi bili osnaženi UN i međunarodno pravo. Ovo bi bilo posebno važno u današnjim okolnostima te bi dovelo do priznanja različitih tradicija i u skladu s tim različitih sustava vladavine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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