20.500.12556/ReVIS-11829 Failed democracy the Slovenian Patria case - (non)law in context Spodletela demokracija The paper discusses the role played by the Slovenian judiciary and its legal academic counterparts in the notorious Slovenian ‘Patria affair’. The affair led to the incarceration of the leader of the main Slovenian opposition party just three weeks before the parliamentary elections, turning the latter into an unfair and illegitimate event rather than an exercise in democracy. Due to the overall legal and political context of the affair, there is growing evidence to substantiate the belief that right from the outset the affair was politically motivated and used to instrumentalise, even abuse, the institutions of the rule of law for political purposes. With a special focus on the role of the Constitutional Court in this matter, the paper demonstrates the severity of the crisis of the rule of law in Slovenia, a country that is inevitably drifting into the group of de facto failed constitutional democracies. tranzicija demokracija Slovenija pravosodje pravna država true false false Dignitas : revija za človekove pravice = the Slovenian journal of human rights Slovenski jezik Angleški jezik Članek v reviji 2025-06-23 13:49:34 2025-06-23 13:49:34 2025-06-26 14:30:19 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014 0 0 str. 59-83 [Št.] 61/62 2014 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2014-01-01 342(497.4) 1408-9653 80791553 199-Original_Scientific_Article-1022-1-10-20190702.pdf 199-Original_Scientific_Article-1022-1-10-20190702.pdf 1 2E87D0896DBF8841CE0334A5CEE4393C 86c73430e7bc400ce182afbdcd0f3ea1e53bb40c99833b60f98e3c262a7ce27f 546292a9-5028-11f0-8080-001a4af901a5 https://revis.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=13677 Nova Univerza - Evropska pravna fakulteta 0 0 0