However, the combined concentration of political scandals with low levels of trust in parliament and in parties per se does not offer a plausible explanation for the timing of new parties entering parliament in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2011 (see entries on Slovenia in the EJPR Political Data Yearbook).
This collection of essays emanates from a workshop on the issue held as part of the 1995 Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research (EJPR).