The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism
Date:
December 5, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:10 Event type:
General Event audience:
CEU Community + Invited Guests DISC-PERG Joint Lecture
Igor guardiancich
Max Weber Programme, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Firenze, Italy
The political-economy literature has so far almost unanimously regarded Slovenia as the social-democratic exception in Central and eastern europe, due to a combination of highly consensual democratic institutions, low party polarization, strong social part- ners, and developed social dialogue. However, the situation, since the fall of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS), which governed in 1992–2004, seems to be swiftly changing. Polarization has increased, union legitimacy declined, and social dialogue— especially in the aftermath of the 2007–2009 financial crisis—has all but collapsed. The 2010 pension reform is an archetypical example of how Slovenia now much more resembles its quarrelsome eastern neighbours than the idealized exception that politi- cal scientists usually point at.
15:30-17:10 in Popper Room.
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