This book analyses the characteristics and roles of electoral programs. The key emphasise in this regard is devoted to their policy preferences. Party programs are regarded as an important constitutive and rational part of each democratic election cycle as well as also political party making. In this book the first comprehensive analysis of the electoral programs contents of the national parliamentary elections in Slovenia from the state’s independence on is given in the comparative perspective.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259272704
The main aim of this article is to disclose the prevailing characteristics of the party programmes prepared or used for the purposes of Slovenian national parliamentary elections (e.g. electoral programmes). With this in mind, we expect to be able to give mainly a general descriptive assessment of the status and importance of party electoral programmes in the case of a young post-socialist democratic state, actually the first of that kind in the Slovenian case. Accordingly, a comparative approach of analysing the outlook and content dimensions of party programmes is applied.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30122333
A detailed analysis of party organization, party funding and voting behaviour in parliament in Slovenia indicates a partial cartelization of Slovene party politics. In line with the cartel thesis, parties in Slovenia are heavily dependent on the state for their finances and there is evidence that parties have used the resources of the state to limit competition. Nonetheless, there is much less evidence of cartelization in terms of party organization indicating more cartelization in the party system as a whole than within individual parties.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30824285