This article assesses the effects of the democratic transition, the introduction of a capitalist economy, the creation of a new independent state and international economic and political integrations on the employment prospects of political science graduates.

The paper looks at the degree of normative sustainability achieved by selected regimes in relation to their sustainable development strategies. The paper focuses on Agenda 21, the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development, the renewed Sustainable Development Strategy of the European Union and the Slovenian Development Strategy, and draws on Becker et al.'s interdisciplinary concept of sustainability and the operationalisation of normative sustainability.

This paper assesses three sustainable de- velopment strategies – the European Union’s Sustainable Development Strategy in its revised version, the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustain- able Development and Slovenia’s Development Strategy – according to the level of sustainability these strategies provide. Deriving from three di- verse sustainable development regimes, select- ed strategies are scrutinised for the presence of the five general principles of effective sustainable development strategies promoted by the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development. Building on George and Kirkpatrick’s (2006) framework for analysis, we concentrate on principles of strategic planning and sustainable development, and a coordinated set of measures to ensure their implementation. The results reveal that the major differences be- tween the assessed strategies are present in the sophistication of the theoretical bases and the integration of three main pillars of sustainable development (i.e. environmental, economic and social). In general, the assessed strategies re- flect a high degree of inclusiveness of a variety of interests. However, there is a common weak- ness among them in terms of implementation, be it in the provision of adequate resources, the guarantee of adequate implementing capacity of the institutions designated for implementation or the precise definition of the institutional frame- work responsible for the implementation of the strategy.

The Youth 2020 survey was largely designed as a follow-up to a similar survey ten years ago, but it also built in part on the methodological approaches and data of the 2000 survey. This allowed researchers to gain a detailed insight into long-term trends, which proved essential as the most important results of the study relate precisely to trends over the last ten or twenty years. The project involved the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Maribor and a team from the Centre for Political Science Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, the latter under the leadership of Dr T. Deželan.