ABSTRACT
The neo-corporatism and political exchanges observed in Slovenia in the 1990s were already slowly eroding after the country attained EU and especially eurozone membership. During the Great Recession (2009–2013), Slovenia saw these neo-corporatist arrangements being substituted by a series of relatively successful exchanges dealing with the welfare state, mostly under a centre-right coalition government (2012–2013). In the post-crisis period, the negotiations between governments and (mostly) public sector unions suggest that a new type of political exchange is emerging. In the presence of unstable and fragile governments and the weakened (yet radicalised) other two social partners, it seems that post-crisis concertation will be marked by random and fragmented exchanges, depending on the context and moment in time.
