The article analyses the usual one-dimensional simplification of a complex socio-political reality, conventionally identified in Central and Eastern European post-communist countries as a left-right continuum.
The article analyses the usual one-dimensional simplification of a complex socio-political reality, conventionally identified in Central and Eastern European post-communist countries as a left-right continuum.
The Treaty of Lisbon, in Article 12, mentions for the first time at treaty level the role of national parliaments (OJ C 306, 207), underlining the dynamics of strengthening the parliamentary dimension in the European Union (EU), which also applies to some extent to the Slovenian Presidency.
The article discusses the importance of T. H. Marshall in the field of citizenship theory. Drawing on his work on citizenship and social class, it highlights some of the features relevant to the study of citizenship.
Slovenia has often been presented as a "success story" of the transition to modern liberal democracy. This article seeks to revise this somewhat distorted image by explaining how different political visions and their clashes and coalitions over the two decades of independence have shaped Slovenia's citizenship regime, which is rife with undemocratic practices. Based on the approach of the "nationalising state", the article sheds light on two dominant political agendas: the agenda of the nationalising state and the agenda of the Europeanising state.