ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The main aim of the book is to consider if the weakness of democratic politics in systemic and constitutional restructuring of post-communist CEE transition countries was detrimental to these countries' democratic and constitutional development. Most of the CEE regimes were constitutionalised in the absence of public debate and deliberation and that they suffer from a state of unconsolidated democracy and weaknesses in constitutional culture. Even though the tension between constitutionalism and democracy is likely to remain unresolved in constitutional theory and practice, its foundational nature has been, yet again, made acutely apparent in the context of post-communist systemic transitions. The book concludes that the legitimisation of constitutional arrangements which lacked democratic foundations may have limited the dynamics of democratic growth and led to solidifying of the democratic and constitutional underdevelopment of those countries.
