ABSTRACT
Parliamentary research has, in recent years, incorporated a new dynamic approach enabling the study of the relationship between economic conditions and stability of political institutions. The case study of the Slovenian Parliament shows a close relationship between the economic crisis and the duration of the mandates of the Slovenian National Assembly and coalition governments in the period from 2008 to 2016. The impact of the economic crisis had a substantial impact on the social conditions of large groups of population and changed the support radically to the established political parties. It also diminished the possibility of regular elections and increased the likelihood of early elections or a change of coalition government without elections. The study also presents some additional factors of destabilization like the number of competing parties and the interventions of supranational institutions. It also gives evidence, that parliament may become submissive to executive and unable to set limits to government’s actions. Such developments in Slovenia could be compared to those taking place in several other Central European (old and new democratic) countries.
