Questions related to the democratic system and its alternatives are as relevant today as they were before the Second World War. The attitude of the major pre-war competitive political blocs in the Slovenian territory towards democracy remained virtually unchanged: it was pragmatic, instrumentalised and reserved. In the plethora of pre-war corporate models of social regulation three models are particularly advanced: GosarŽs model, JerajŽs model and the model of The Slovenian Workers Federation. The comparison of these three models yields conclusions, which carry important implications for the current issues related to the question mentioned in the title. In the final section of the article, the conclusions (constructs) are divided into four types, which can be expressed as combinations of political problems and solutions typical of the Slovenian past and present times.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3725157
The article results from international research which draws together empirical data from over one hundred interviews in the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Estonia, and France to provide one of the first comparative accounts of the de facto and de jure stateless populations in the European Union. It blends legal, political and empirical research to examine how non-citizens without secure status manage their lives in four EU member states. Normative and legal analyses of the practical meaning of basic human rights are combined with a ground-breaking investigation of the obstacles that prevent people from accessing essential services.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3593573
The Bologna reform has, despite its negative effects, been beneficial to the formal level of social work studies in Europe. After 2000 the social work discipline faced an intensive development of graduate and postgraduate programmes, internationalisation and research activities. These processes also include the establishment and development of the first European doctoral studies in social work and social politics – Indosow. The article describes the dilemmas of neoliberalisation of higher education and innovations, introduced by the first European doctoral programme of social work (2009) as it is the first international doctoral programme at the University of Ljubljana. The main characteristics of Indosow are academisation of social work and doctoral theses based on comparative and critical analysis. Nevertheless, the need to develop professional doctoral studies in social work corresponding to domestic (Slovenian) needs, still remains. Despite the harmonisation of higher education, the doctoral studies in Europe and in the world still face great differences in structure, form and teaching. The article presents some differences and some deficits in implementation of doctoral studies in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3683941