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The article discusses the existence of authoritarian tendencies in post-Yugoslave countries. The analysis covers essentially three new state organisms – the Republic of Serbia, Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia. It was pointed out that democratic changes do not show linear trends, after a period of democratic change, it is possible to regress and increase authoritarian changes. An outline of the development of political systems was presented, the trends of transformational processes were presented at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s.