Editing Yugoslavia (section)

== Government ==

The interwar state was governed as a monarchy under the Karađorđević dynasty. The king served as head of state, while ministers exercised executive authority. The National Assembly held legislative powers under the constitution, although the royal dictatorship introduced in 1929 restricted parliamentary government and concentrated authority in the monarchy.

The socialist state was organised as a federal republic. Each constituent republic had its own constitution, assembly, government, courts, and communist party organisation. Federal institutions controlled defence, foreign affairs, currency, national economic policy, and relations between the republics.

The League of Communists of Yugoslavia was the ruling political organisation until multiparty politics developed near the end of the federation. The 1974 constitution established an eight-member collective presidency representing the six republics and the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia operated as a federation of Serbia and Montenegro. It had a federal president, government, assembly, constitutional court, armed forces, and central bank. Serbia and Montenegro also maintained separate republican institutions.