Uros Pinteric

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Trencianska Univerzita Alexandra Dubceka V Trencine

Obwohl Migration aus historischer Sicht kaum etwas Neues ist, bedeutet sie für die nationalen und subnationalen Regierungen oft viel Stress. Das slowenische Territorium ist ein historischer Knotenpunkt der Migration, an dem nicht nur Nationen, sondern auch Zivilisationen aufeinander treffen . In dieser Hinsicht hat das Land eine lange Geschichte im...

Inteligentne miasta są uważane za istotną koncepcję, stanowiącą pomost pomiędzy technologią a społeczeństwem. Przejmuje ona rezerwy zarządzania w społeczeństwie ludzkim, które mogą być wykorzystane przez różne narzędzia technologiczne, mogące uczyć się wzorców zachowań i odpowiednio dostosowywać różne aspekty życia. Jednak ta koncepcja społeczna na...

Despite migration is hardly anything new in the historical perspective, it often brings lots of stress to the national and sub-national governments. Territory of Slovenia is historical migration crossroad, where not only nations but also civilisations often meet or clashed. In this perspective country has reach history in managing migration, which...

The article is trying to understand the reasons for the poor implementation of e-state tools as the principle of overcoming the bureaucratic processes. In this manner it follows the question of motivation which is further supplemented by survey results from Slovenia, showing general lack of motivation measured through the ignorance of technology po...

The chapter presents the development of the e-government in the case of Slovenia, taking in the consideration the human factor as main obstacle. On the side of the citizens as well as on the level of public administration, there is misconception of the purposes of the ICT, and thus, it appears that both partners in this context communicate past one...

Identity is the basic category of the individual, which ensures the uniqueness of a person as well as its incorporation in the social structures. Globalization of the world led to the redefinition of the social importance of identity, which is becoming simultaneously stronger and weaker. The article is, more than a scientific text, the basis for th...

The renewal of local self-government in the Central and Eastern European post-communist countries was accompanied, inter alia, by new arrangements of intra-institutional relations within local governments, a re-introduction of democratic local elections, and the formation of a new political arena. In general, all these countries experienced a fast-...

Path dependence is a concept often used by scholars in fields such as economics , economic geography, political science, law and sociology to explain recent developments. In this article, we apply the concept to support the hypothesis that the democratic revival after 1990 in the examined Central and Eastern European countries and related setup of...

Article is short review of political and economic transition period in the area of former Yugoslavia. Author compares two of its most important parts, Serbia as previous political centre and Slovenia as economically most advanced republic that also tried to democratize Yugoslavian federation already before Yugoslav disintegration. Author argues tha...

e-Participation was considered to be proper solution for the long term decline of political participation at different levels. However, recent events show that there is very limited space for the political participation, which is considered to be functional. The paper explores the changes in citizens' participation after the introduction of differe...

Purpose and Originality: The article is aimed to assess the development and current state of the human rights. Modern reality requires redefinition of human rights, due to the events, which are re-establishing realist approach to global politics. Method: Method is combination of focused synthesis and inverse deduction. Results: The article support...

Despite strong demands for specialisation, it is more and more obvious that modern research interests cannot be addressed in isolation—one could argue that even in research, the world is facing a kind of globalisation. The same is valid also for the understanding of the state, which is often reduced to certain components close to the individual res...

The article is trying to understand the reasons for the poor implementation of e-state tools as the principle of overcoming the bureaucratic processes. In this manner it follows the question of motivation which is further supplemented by survey results from Slovenia, showing general lack of motivation measured through the ignorance of technology po...

Over the last decades, the participation, in one form or another, became important part of the political and administrative processes. However, there is significant deal of differences among the countries as well as among the local communities when it comes to the practical use of these concepts. In the paper, we are trying to present the Slovenian...

The paper analyzes the impact of inter-municipal cooperation on territorial fragmentation on the basis of a European comparison of the cases of Slovakia, Slovenia, and the German Land Brandenburg. While in Brandenburg all IMC types utilized intensively, in Slovakia quasi-regional governments and service delivery organizations and in Slovenia only t...

In recent years, the debate about the benefits of the ICT was lively and systematically positive. It was particularly an answer to exclusiveness of the classical representative democracy. However, many cases showed that the e-democracy proves effective only when there is political will to realise the demands of the citizens. Simultaneously, the tec...

80 Abstract Smart cities are a modern administrative/ developmental concept that tries to combine the development of urban areas with a higher lev- el of citizens’ participation. However, there is a lack of understanding of the concept’s potential, due possibly to an unwillingness to accept a new form of relationship with the citizens. In this ar-...

After the fall of communist regimes in Europe, the post-communist countries tried to reform their local government systems in the manner that would be closer to democratic principles accepted in the European Union. Although these countries were following the same goal and to join the EU, and were supported by the same international organizations an...

Smart cities are a modern administrative/ developmental concept that tries to combine the development of urban areas with a higher level of citizens’ participation. However, there is a lack of understanding of the concept’s potential, due possibly to an unwillingness to accept a new form of relationship with the citizens. In this article, the willi...

After the fall of communist regimes in Europe, the post-communist countries tried to reform their local government systems in the manner that would be closer to democratic principles accepted in the European Union. Although these countries were following the same goal and to join the EU, and were supported by the same international organizations an...

Local finances are subject of only limited debate, connected usually with the unreasonable high expenditures and low efficiency. This situation is then abused for support to the amalgamation or simple reduction of the number of municipalities. In the article we are trying to understand if there is any connection between different perspective on loc...

Author in the article tries to analyse different elements of document called European Constitution. Analysis is supported with theoretical framework of federalism, presented by Brezovšek. Authors is playing with idea of (con)federal and international organization elements of European Constitution and their mix. They are also trying to set some conn...

Izvorni znanstveni rad Primljeno: 18. 12. 2012. This article is based on the comparative research of media--indicated party positions in the so-called "left-right continuum" versus the position of political parties on this continuum, as determined by their programmes. The authors argue that media usage of left and right positioning has, over time,...

We compare characteristics of local self-government systems in Lithuania and Slovakia in the article and try to identify main differences and similarities within the field of inter-municipal cooperation. We suppose that size structure of local governments has impact on inter-municipal cooperation – the more consolidated structure, the less intensiv...

The article tries to see the possible budgetary consequences for local budgets in Slovenia. Since the local level, especially in Slovenia, is underestimated in the analysis of effects of the economic crisis we are trying to indicate the possible elements showing that the economic crisis is not only a national but also a local issue. However, in the...

This book is divided into two parts. The first section presents the theoretical framework of the issue of local governance. The introductory chapter is devoted to the topic of local democratization in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In political science, the subject of democratic transition has become an almost separate discipline. How...

In time of crisis, the role of a government is more obvious than ever. The current economic crisis is bringing up many questions about the role of the state. It is more than obvious that the recent economic crisis is not purely economic but more so moral, a true crisis of the liberal capitalism ideology. Consequently, political systems supporting p...

Local Reforms in Transition Democracies analyses local public reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine. Practitioners and researchers (economists, lawyers, geographers and political scientists) investigate the transition to democracy and the reform efforts for good governance that Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia and Slove...

The author explores some of the generally overlooked roles of police force in contemporary world. The last decade was strongly marked by a need for increased safety, and police forces were strongly motivated to change the security paradigm. However, a connection between police and security can be seen as well, through the budget, where the activity...

Due to the ongoing public administration reform process in Slovenia, different models for assessing performance of different levels of public administration, including municipalities, are introduced. However, no stable and systematically model, that could be used for systematic evaluation of municipalities performance was developed so far. Due to t...

Slovenia made an early start establishing multiparty democracy, but its democratic political system will not be truly mature until a cohort of MPs with multiterm seniority has been able to institutionalize parliamentary traditions.

Since the conceptual framework of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in 1990s, at least two convergent trends may be found out. The first trend refers to EAS operationalisation as instrument and mechanism for assessing the reforms of the national public administrations. Herewith, we refer to the deepness of EAS content, which has become more c...

The author explores some of the generally overlooked roles of police force in contemporary world. The last decade was strongly marked by a need for increased safety, and police forces were strongly motivated to change the security paradigm. However, a connection between police and security can be seen as well, through the budget, where the activity...

Relationship of fiscal rules and fiscal sustainability is subject to ongoing debate which was intensified by adoption of EU fiscal rules. Task of the fiscal rules is simple - to prevent the unsustainable growth of debt and spending. However, the problem of fiscal rules that have been applied in past is in ignoring the economic fundamentals that det...

In the process of Slovenian public administration reform from bureaucratic administration to modern administration following new public management and e-governance approaches, one can see logical development of all necessary legal and strategic acts but less so in the practice. The basic method used in our survey on e-communication of Slovenian pub...

The article deals with features of e-governance and e-communication, as important elements of new management of the public sector. The author points out that one of the most important principles of new management is customer orientation. This principle ensures a move from the Weberian type of bureaucratic administration, limited to hierarchical pro...

In this paper, the author analyzes the internet's role in the campaigns for the Slovenion parliamentary elections 2004. He compared web sites of all 23 political parties and independent candidates in three main categories: technical, content and participatory potential. He argues that the quality of mentioned categories goes in the same order. If w...

In this paper, the author analyzes the internet's role in the campaigns for the Slovenian parliamentary elections 2004. He compared web sites of all 23 political parties and independent candidates in three main categories: technical, content and participatory potential. He argues that the quality of mentioned categories goes in the same order. If w...

In the lost decade, there were many ideas about common European identity in the context of the development and reform of the European Union. Ideas are based on different elements of common identity whether they exist or not. However, it is not so easy to say that common European identity really exists. In this article, the author will try to show i...

In the last decade, there were many ideas about common European identity in the context of the development and reform of the European Union. Ideas are based on different elements of common identity whether they exist or not. However, it is not so easy to say that common European identity really exists. In this article, the author will try to show i...

In paper author will present different aspects of e-governance development in Slovenian municipalities and try to compare it to different other cases around the EU states. In first part some theoretical framework of e-government in local communities will be prepared and supported by case of Slovenian legal framework concerning e-government. In seco...

In this article, author explores and analyzes Parliamentarian English web pages of smaller Central and East European countries. In the time of information society even political institutions have to adopt newly developed technologies and use them in their daily internal communication as well as in contacts with own citizens and foreign visitors. In...