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Principles of good governance and the Republic of Croatia

The purpose of every legal order is to organize a stabile and peaceful coexistence of human beings in any given socio- political community by honouring certain fundamental material and formal values. Legal orders of European countries have as their focal value rights of persons (individuals), while the main idea and goal of such orders became creation of adequate social environment for a complete and free development of every single person. As the Declaration of Independence put it, it is exactly the ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’ that defines core values of contemporary Western European/Anglo-American type of civilization. Every organized political community has a sort of governance, i.e., a set of rules, processes and behaviours that (in) formally organize and shape the way in which powers are exercised. The system of governance that seems to promote to the best the above described values is often labelled as ‘liberal democracy’, ‘constitutional democracy’ or simply ‘good (decent) governance’. The issue here is how to define such a democracy and, even more important, which are its main features that can serve as relevant measures of its ‘adequacy’ or ‘decency’.

good governance, transparency, participation, coherence, normative activity

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