%0 Journal Article
%T The Evolution of the Presidency in the Post-Yugoslav Countries in the 1990s – the Non-institutional or Instiutional Element of the Democratic System
%A Wojnicki, Jacek
%J Studia Środkowoeuropejskie i Bałkanistyczne
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/2543733XSSB.17.039.8337
%N Tom XXVI
%P 293-311
%K presidency, postcommunist states, desintegration of Yugoslavia, democratization, authoritarian
%@ 2451-4993
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/ssb/artykul/the-evolution-of-the-presidency-in-the-post-yugoslav-countries-in-the-1990s-the-non-institutional-or-instiutional-element-of-the-democratic-system
%X 
	This article is devoted to the analysis of the formation of state leadership in the states created after the breakup of the Yugoslav federation. Presidency was quite a new political solution, it has not occurred during the first Yugoslavia (1918–1941) nor, for obvious reasons, before World War I (lack of the state system, or the monarchical form of state – the cases of Serbia and Montenegro). The formation of new political and social institutions at the beginning of the 1990s was related to the functioning of the Yugoslav state on the one hand, and on the other hand to the observation and perception of external solutions, which did not always fit in the political system of a Balkan state