ABSTRACT
This chapter describes party regulation in Slovenia and its evolution, and explains why the regulation has evolved in this way. It seeks to assess the party regulation's impact on the party and party system characteristics and stability/dynamics. In Slovenia, party law regulates parties to a greater extent than constitutions. As J. G. March and J. P. Olsen explain, financial resources are a necessary condition of all organisations' activities and survival, and the same is true for political parties. Many scholars have looked at the explanatory factors behind party laws' evolution, and contrary to the relatively broad belief, the evolution of party regulation is not determined by parties' interests alone. The evolution of party funding regulation has been seen by many scholars as importantly driven by corruption affairs, scandals or as reactions to crises. The party law conforms in many respects to prevalent solutions found in other Western European, and Central-Eastern European, countries, although also some peculiarities can be detected.
