Slovenia is a typical representative of a gradualist approach to transition. The prevailing view in Slovenia is that the gradualist approach has been the best solution. Contrary to this view, this article claims that the gradualist approach to transition gives positive results in the initial...

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of political stability in one-party states, taking as an example socialist Yugoslavia. The authors assume that the number of the party members is an indicator of the stability of the regime and perform a time series analysis for the six...

The report on the workshop Measuring Law and Institutions highlights two topics. One is the World Bank governance indicators; improvements in governance significantly increase national income. The other is the importance of legal origins; different legal traditions are supposed to influence...

We use EBRD transition index to classify transition countries into gradualist and orthodox reformers. When comparing this classification with records of economic and political reforms before the breakdown of socialism, an apparent historical regularity emerges. Countries where transition was to...

The 10th international scientific conference mic was held in 2009. The conference was organized by the Faculty of Management of the University of Primorska in Koper, EMUNI and the University of Soussa under the title Creativity, Innovation and Management to coincide with the European Year of...

The 9th International Scientific Conference mic 2008 was held in November in Spain. The conference titled Intercultural Dialogue and Management took place during the European year of intercultural dialogue and was organised by the Faculty of Management Koper, a member of the University of...

Standard methods to assess the statistical quality of econometric models implicitly assume there is only one person in the world, namely the forecaster with her model(s), and that there exists an objective and independent reality to which the model predictions may be compared. However, on many...

We consider the new EU member states as semi-peripheral countries standing at the development crossroads. We emphasize the sociocultural factors of development, present a model for bringing together several cultural and social influences, and test its validity by applying a fuzzy-set...