Slovenian political thought in the period between two world wars evolved in correlation with the political thought of the time accross Europe, but with some idiosyncracies. In Slovenian political thought and life the tradition of Central European political thought endured, be it in terms of political content or its core views. The communist left added to the traditional currents. Nevertheless, the most significant output of the mentioned actors is traced in the field of the national question.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30079837
This article addresses two key questions about the convergence of education policies in the European Union (EU). How does the open method of coordination (OMC), a new governance instrument for the Europeanisation of education policies, change existing national education policy making and how can the OMC and national responses to it be researched? The authors argue that the OMC brings to national policy making a particular set of ideas about education, such as an emphasis on the contribution of education to building competitive economies and a new public management approach.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29621597
Slovenia's Transition: From Medieval Roots to the European Union details and analyzes the history of the process of Slovenia's transformation from a socialist, self managed, political-economic system to that of a capitalist, democratically regulated, market system. The book reveals the economic development of Slovenia as it transformed. Bogomil Ferfila explores the transformation of institutions through the development of corporatism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29558877
The dual central themes of the book are democratisation and Europeanisation. As with the others chapters, the chapter on Slovenia includes the following themes: system rebuilding; politics and governance (including the formation of the party system, the development of rival opinion groups, and controversies about the lustration process); the role of the media (including its de-monopolisation); economic issues (including privatisation); criminality and corruption; coming to terms with the communist (and perhaps also pre-communist) past, and past controversies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29255261
The core intention of the volume is to present the main determinants of citizenship that marked citizens and determined the in the process of ruling or being ruled. The gocus of the volume is the phenomena of surpassing the boundaries of the nation-state, mainly in terms of deliberation on the current debates about cosmopolitan and multi-level citizenship. As an answer to the challenges of globalization, transnationalism and devolution the author provides an excursion into the field of supranationalism and federalism in order to grasp with the challenges facing citizenship of the EU today.
COBISS.SI-ID: 254034688