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Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: religion, northeast Slovenia, statistical regions, privatization of religion Abstract: A comparative analysis of religiosity across Slovenian statistical regions was conducted based on the survey data from the Slovenian Public Opinion project (SPO). It took into consideration available data from 1969 to 2016 and compared four regions of northeast Slovenia (Pomurska, Podravska, Koroška and Savinjska) with other regions in the country. Special attention was devoted to the thesis on privatization of religion in (post)modern societies, as well as to a more general thesis of secularization. Results of the analysis showed that fluctuations in religiosity in Slovenia as a whole were compatible with some previous observations: Until 1978, there was a significant decline in religiosity. This trend then reversed and revitalization of religion took place up until early 1990s. Since then, during the post-socialist period, religiosity did not change much in any direction. The crucial observation within these fluctuations is that the specific features of northeast regions endured through the entire observed period. These specific features are visible mostly in terms of relatively high levels of religiosity in general, as well as in very high levels of institutional religiosity and relatively low levels of private religiosity.

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Keywords: Josip Leskovar, Maribor, Municipality, Government Commissioner 1920–1921, Aleksander Karađorđević, Orel Association Camp, Sokol SHS Association, Shortage Abstract: Dr. Josip Leskovar was appointed government commissioner for Maribor in March 1920. He was in office for nine months – until the end of December of the same year. At the beginning of January 1921, he handed over the tasks to the newly appointed commissioner, Ivo Poljanec. The article presents Leskovar's short biography, and on the basis of literature, newspaper sources, and archival material highlights some of the most important projects that were carried out in his time. Leskovar led preparations for the reception of Regent Alexander Karadjordjevic, who visited Maribor in June 1920, and in the city, in the summer, organized an all-Slovenian Orel Association camp and a gathering of the Sokol SHS Association. The biggest issues the city was facing were food, housing, and fuel shortages.

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovene (Abstract in Slovene and English, Summary in English) Keywords: United States of America, European Economic Community, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, 1991, international recognition, diplomacy, The New York Times Abstract: Based on the study of newspaper material (both Slovenian and foreign, especially The New York Times), published documents and the most relevant literature, the article focuses on the diplomatic efforts of Slovenian political leaders to achieve Slovenia's international recognition, and the reaction of the rest of the world to it. The position of US official policy on the issue of Slovenia's international recognition is particularly emphasized, as well as the reporting of the US press on the policy of the United States of America and the countries of the European Economic Community towards Slovenia. The timeframe covered by the article is from the end of June 1991, when Slovenia (as well as Croatia) declared independence, to the first half of April 1992, when the United States recognized Slovenia as an independent and sovereign state.

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: elections in Central-East Europe, former Socialist countries, coalitions, big tent parties, democratization, fragmentation, party systems Abstract: The paper's main aim is to describe the changes experienced by party landscapes of the selected former Socialist countries in the Central-East Europe from the period 1989/91 until 2013. The authors try to explain the situation more than two decades later from the historical point of view. All the electoral premieres during the "Spring of nations" from 1989 till 1991 featured a showdown between the ruling Communists and their successor parties and the newly formed or emerging opposition. The opposition was victorious in all the discussed countries other than Bulgaria and Romania. On the other hand, none of the coalitions or big tent parties from the early 1990s survived next two decades. Only in few cases, really stable party systems emerged until 2010s.