Non-Partisan Local Actors As the Element of Absorbed Local Democracy?(Report‪)‬

I. A Conductive Political Sphere: Anti-partisanship In Slovenia Political parties first appeared in Slovenian territory in the second half of the 19th century and disappeared prior to World War II. One can only identify two periods in Slovenian history during which partisanship flourished: the early 1920s and the early 1990s (Luksic 1994: 23). Instead of witnessing the rise of partisanship, Slovenian politics were harshly criticised by partisanship which developed new forms of political and social organisation instead of parties. An anti-party trend is --on the other side--one of the more recent phenomena in contemporary democracies around the world (Bale and Roberts 2002: 1).