PARTICIPACIJA GRAÐANA U IZBORNOJ DEMOKRATIJI - IZBOR OPCINSKOG VIJECA: Studija slucaja, opcina Ilidža 2008. i 2012.

Theme of this paper is Citizen participation in the electoral democracy - election of Municipal council: Case study, Ilidža 2008 and 2012. The starting point for the elaboration of this theme lies in the fact that participation of citizens in the electoral process is a precondition for the constitution of the Municipal council as the representative body of citizens in the local community and the local government. Public policies at a local level are most directly implemented through the Council's work, which is the main purpose and objective for the constitution of the Council. The main subject matter of this paper is the participation of citizens in local elections within the electoral (representative) democracy as the basis of the constitution of the Municipal council, on one side, and ensuring accountability of elected representatives, on the other, with a special emphasis on the Municipality of Ilidža. The participation of citizens in the Ilidža Municipal council's election is seen through comparative analysis of local elections in 2008. and 2012. This paper uses historical method, content analysis (document analysis), comparative method and statistical method. After the completion of theoretical and empirical research, the overall conclusion is that participation of citizens in the election (representative) democracy is a precondition for the constitution of a representative body of the Municipality of Ilidža, since the representative body of the Municipality - the Municipal council rests on democratic free will of the citizens of the Municipality of Ilidža. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]