This paper fills in the gap in the literature on new parties entering parliament by focusing on particularities of a postcommunist party system by taking Slovenia as a case study. During the Slovenian party system’s consolidation period (1992-2011) only four new parties (DeSUS, SMS, NSi, Zares) succeeded in entering parliament. However, just one (DeSUS) has endured over the long term. Based on the literature on new parties in the Western party system, the literature on particularities of postcommunist party systems embedded in parliamentary systems and empirical research into the case of Slovenia it has been revealed that, in general, Slovenia’s institutional rules do matter when it comes to new parties entering the parliamentary system. However, besides the institutional milieu there are necessary preconditions that need to be fulfilled by a new party to enter parliament. Nevertheless, in order to maintain a longterm parliamentary position, newcomers also need to satisfy sufficient preconditions. Apart from the necessary preconditions listed above they need to focus on a longterm policy issue which is vital to a large proportion of a targeted social group; this social group needs to represent an important share of the electorate, there should not be other serious competitors with the same social appeal and the party must have strong coalition potential.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 306220452011 coalition crisis in Slovenia could be solved by applying many different resolution tools, among them also the so called constructive vote of no confidence (like in 1992). Vote of confidence prolonged the existence of the nonoperative minority coalition and deepened the crisis.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 30560349In the framework of the development of research work the aim of the contribution is to discuss about the complex and to the contemporary circumstances adapted understanding of political culture as one of the fundamental political sciences concepts. A special attention is in this regard given to the role of the electoral behaviour in relation to various types of political cultures, especially party choice and identification.
D.08 Management and development of research activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 31554909We address a substantive question of political science research: What are similarities and differences in the content of political party electoral programmes (manifestos)? In our analyses, we demonstrate the benefits of clustering methods in providing methodologically superior solutions of multilevel comparisons dilemmas of manifestos, parties and countries.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 31419229In the frameworks of the visiting professorship at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Sciences, in the academic year 2010/11 a serious of lectures which (in)directly relate to the research project issues and topics through the application of the theoretically and methodologically relevant knowledge about the roles of public policies and contents in and for the democratic political systems, electoral processes and individual groups involved in them.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
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