This book is first of all an exploratory account of an under-researched aspect of socio-political dynamics on the territory of the former socialist Yugoslavia since the 1980s. It presents a rough analysis of the main characteristics and factors of civil society developments from the point of view of native experts. A common thread that runs throughout the monograph is the connection between the development of a modern civil society and the variations in democratic transition in the various territories of former socialist Yugoslavia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 279422720
The article addresses the bias in interest representation within the EU by examining the lobbying strategies of national interest organisations within the EU’s multilevel political system. Both our theoretical framework, which includes the determinants of a national interest organisation’s decision to act at the EU level, and the data analysis from the INTEREURO Multi-Level Governance Module (MLG) (www.intereuro.eu) reveal three main findings. Firstly, the greatest differentiation among interest organisations (IOs) appears to be between those IOs from the older member states (Germany, the UK and the Netherlands), which exhibit above-average levels of activity, and those from the newer EU member states (Sweden, Slovenia), which exhibit below-average levels of activity. Secondly, the variations in IO activity levels are much greater from country to country than from one policy field to another. Thirdly, although the IOs from all five countries in our study are more likely to employ media and publishing strategies (information politics) than to mobilise their members and supporters (protest politics), we can still observe national patterns in their selection of strategies and in the intensity of their instrumentalisation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34106717
This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of public policy towards "the Erased" implementation problems in the Republic of Slovenia, where the former Yugoslav population was removed from the Register of Permanent Residence by national authorities. We will focus on the implementation of two constitutional rulings during the period from 1999 to 2012 in the context of multi-level policymaking and policy networks. With the analytical framework applied in a two-level analysis we will analyse how these mezzo (the relations between policy actors) and macro level (the structural strength of the state and social political groups in parliament) variables influence policy outcomes and in particular ineffective implementation. The results reveal a gap between two different decision-making processes: what political actors wanted to do, and what they were obliged to do according to constitutional demands. Additionally, the change at the macro level will be shown to contribute to the change in the policy network at the mezzo level and thus to the final implementation of public policy towards "the Erased."
COBISS.SI-ID: 34730589