ABOUT HISTORICAL REASONS FOR CONTEMPORARY SLOVENE DISSATISFACTION WITH SLOVENE POSTSOCIALIST REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Abstract

The text presents an analysis of historical reasons for contemporary Slovene dissatisfaction with Slovene postsocialist representative democracy. The core reason for this dissatisfaction lies in the fact that Western democracy differs in many characteristics from native Slovene democracy, which was an important part of Slovene social organization from the 6th century to the end of socialism. The analysis will present Slovene native democracy and its most important characteristics and compare these with the characteristics of imported Western democracy. The analysis proves that imported Western democracy transgresses the most important practices and characteristics of Slovene political heritage which are from a native Slovene perspective, connected, even equated with democracy. This produces several problems, including dissatisfaction with Slovene postsocialist democracy. In the text historical analysis and data collected through field work in Slovene postsocialist society will be combined.