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AbstractThe V-Dem data for Slovenia reveal three main periods with distinct evaluations of democracy: (1) a transitional low evaluation, (2) a rather high and constant evaluation of democracy in the period just after the adoption of the new constitution (1991) and before the COVID-19 crisis and (3) a radical decline in democracy (2020–2021). The analysis of the contextual factors points to the circumstances that produced major dissatisfaction among the citizens with parties and party government. The most visible factors were: a radical worsening of the economy, a rise in social inequalities (considered by the citizens as unjust), external factors enhancing these economic and socio-economic trends (the EU’s neoliberal orientation since 2004, and the international financial crisis and its management within the Eurozone), an international trend towards autocracy, multiplying international crises and an international trend towards managing the COVID-19 crisis by limiting the usual democratic functioning.
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Springer Nature Switzerland
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