The role of the third sector in the Slovenian welfare system in three decades of post-socialist experience

Rakar, Tatjana (author), Rape Žiberna, Tamara (author), Rihter, Liljana (author)

The paper analyses the characteristics of the third sector in Slovenia and its role in the Slovenian welfare system following the country’s independence in 1991. Focus is given to the service role of the third sector organizations while it is argued that the growth and rapid increase in the number of third sector organizations in the period under study did not concurrently lead to the third sector’s development in terms of strengthening its professionalization and financial power and, in turn, its role in the country’s welfare system.

• Language: English
• Keywords: third sector, welfare system, public services, transition, Slovenia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences; FSD - Faculty of Social Work
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: [17] str.
• Numbering: Vol. , no.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-175196
• UDC: 364:061.2(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 1573-7098
• DOI: 10.1007/s11115-025-00913-1
• COBISS.SI-ID: 252888323
• Publication date in RUL: 21.10.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Public organization review
• Publisher: Kluwer
• ISSN: 1573-7098
• COBISS.SI-ID: 513234201

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: tretji sektor, nevladne organizacije, profesionalizacija, socialno varstvo, tranzicija, Slovenija

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: V5-2288
• Name: Potencial nevladnih organizacij v Sloveniji za naslavljanje potreb lokalnih skupnosti