In Slovenia, the shaping of an autonomous state also meant replacing the socialist system with a capitalist one. The article presents the Slovenian population’s changing evaluation of these two ...systems based on data collected through the Slovenian public opinion survey from 1990 to 2013. The analysis considers general assessments regarding: a) the socialist period in general and by time sequences; b) the quality of life before and after establishing the independent state; c) the relationship to the notions of Europe, socialism and capitalism, which are complemented by the respondents’ statements on how four selected notions (justice, humanity, inequality and well-being) correspond to their images in both systems.
V Sloveniji je vzpostavitev samostojne države pomenila tudi zamenjavo družbenega sistema socializma s kapitalizmom. V članku je predstavljeno spreminjanje vrednotenja teh dveh sistemov na podlagi ...podatkov longitudinalnega raziskovanja slovenskega javnega mnenja (od 1990 do 2013). V analizi so upoštevane splošne ocene o a) socialističnem obdobju nasploh in po časovnem zaporedju, b) kakovosti življenja pred osamosvojitvijo in v samo- stojni državi, c) odnosu do pojmov Evropa, socializem in kapitalizem, ki jih dopolnjujejo stališča respondentov o tem, kako izbrani štirje pojmi (pravičnost, človečnost, neenakost, blagostanje) ustrezajo njihovim predstavam o enem ali drugem sistemu.
Slovenia has been a member of the European Social Survey (ESS) from the first wave (2002). All nine waves so far were conducted by the same survey organisation (Public opinion research centre at ...University of Ljubljana). This stability may be a key in explaining the success in building a reliable interviewer network. Since the first few waves we have almost completely changed the interviewers’ management and switched from students to professional interviewers. The difference is clear; mostly reflected in higher response rates and in the quality of obtained data. An ‘ideal’ interviewer in Slovenia is a woman (although we do have some very good male colleagues), middle aged, with family and other working obligations. Students in recent years, unfortunately, proved to be unreliable in terms of seeing interviewing as “easy money”, while the professionals are well aware that their livelihood depends on the quality of their work.
Slovenian trade unions - after the changes in the early 1990s and then a period stabilisation at relatively high levels of density which lasted for more than a decade - have, in the second half of ...the last decade, and in accordance with the gradual, irreversible long-term changes in the employment structure and the recent contextual pressures, started to decline rapidly. We have found that the intensity of this change, which started to occur when Slovenia entered the EU, is comparable to the massive changes of the early 1990s. Analysis shows us that, within just a years, the trade union density rate dropped from 40 per cent to less than 30. The share of unionised blue-collar workers is declining relatively rapidly. Unionisation within public services is stable and/or growing, but not intensively enough to substitute for losses in manufacturing industry. In the concluding part of the article try to offer - in a sketchy, stylised manner - some explanations for this quite dramatic, unfavourable trend, which have their roots in the twin aims of Slovenia's transition.
Slovenian trade unions - after the changes in the early 1990s and then a period of stabilisation at relatively high levels of density which lasted for more than a decade - have, in the second half of ...the last decade, and in accordance with the gradual, irreversible long-term changes in the employment structure and the recent contextual pressures, started to decline rapidly. We have found that the intensity of this change, which started to occur when Slovenia entered the EU, is comparable to the massive changes of the early 1990s. Analysis shows us that, within just a few years, the trade union density rate dropped from 40 per cent to less than 30. The share of unionised blue-collar workers is declining relatively rapidly. Unionisation within public services is stable and/or growing, but not intensively enough to substitute for losses in manufacturing industry. In the concluding part of the article we try to offer - in a sketchy, stylised manner - some explanations for this quite dramatic, unfavourable trend, which have their roots in the twin aims of Slovenia's transition. Reprinted by permission of Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
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