Legal Regime For Party Democratisation

Several democratic changes and transformations have occurred globally during the recent decades particularly in the domain of constitutional strengthening of the political parties. In many of the European countries, political transformations especially related with recognition to political parties in the constitution was brought about after Second World War. Studies on European political parties state the fact that Iceland was the first country to recognise political parties within its constitutional framework in 1944 followed by Austria, Italy and Germany in 1945, 1947 and 1949 respectively. Several other European countries have also recognised political parties within the constitutional framework, with Luxembourg being the latest country during the previous decade to join the league.