Publisher's Synopsis
This book is the first account of social policy in the new country of Slovenia. It is written by a team of researchers who have been involved in the quality of life and social policy analysis in the Slovene Republic of Yugoslavia for ten years. The social problems and social policy dilemmas are addressed with respect to the shifts from a centrally planned to a market economy and from one party system to parliamentary democracy. - - Specific social issues of this new European country are presented and documented by means of rich empirical evidence. The questions of continuity, of copying the Western models, of retraditionalization and of innovation in the fields of employment, housing, health care and other services are discussed.
