În ce tip de regim politic încadrăm regimul monarhiei active instituite în Constituţia din 1938?

Prof. univ. dr. CRISTIAN IONESCU*

* e-mail: prof.cristian.ionescu@gmail.com

Membru titular al Academiei de Ştiinţe Juridice din România

ABSTRACT

In this study, the author uses extensive documentary material, some of it unpublished yet, to try to outline the character of the political regime instituted by King Carol II in February 1938. It is well known that in Romanian historiography the reign of King Carol II has been described in different ways, from personal dictatorship to authoritarian monarchy. The author points out that in the 1930s, the democratic institutions created by the liberal Constitution of 1923 were seriously eroded, primarily due to the inability of the political parties and, in general, of the Romanian democratic parliamentary system to find solutions to the serious economic, political and social problems faced by each political party in government and by the country as a...