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  • Slovenia in crisis : a tale of unfinished democratization in East-Central Europe
    Bugarič, Bojan ; Kuhelj, Alenka
    Slovenia, until recently a "success story" of the transition from communism to democracy and the rule of law, is experiencing its biggest constitutional and political crisis since its independence in ... 1991. The Slovenian constitutional model is currently facing a simultaneous economic and political crisis. The article argues that there are two principle reasons for this apparent decline of the Slovenian model. First, because of its relatively privileged position vis-a-vis other East Central European countries, Slovenia has been a reluctant reformer, doing very little to actually change its institutional setup from the communist past. Second, when Slovenia implemented reforms, it did it in a very particular way: as an uncritical model-taker of policy models from the West. This mimicry was done in a fairly top down, bureaucratic way, creating institutions without deep enough roots in society, and without necessary trial and error style usually needed for successful evaluation of proposed reforms.
    Source: Communist and post-communist studies. - ISSN 0967-067X (no. 4, Vol. 48, 2015, str. 273-279)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2015
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 14632785