| KRATKA VSEBINA | Članek s področja nove institucionalne ekonomike preučuje institucije. Z njim vzpostavljamo enoten okvir tega preučevanja, nato pa prikažemo razvoj institucionalnega okvira Slovenije v mednarodni primerjavi in znotraj države. Najprej predstavimo in primerjamo različne načine razvrščanja institucij, nato teoretične koncepte le-teh na podlagi najprimernejšega klasifikacijskega okvira povežemo z empiričnimi kazalniki, katere razdelimo v homogene skupine pravnih, političnih in ekonomskih institucij. V vsaki skupini za vse evropske države izračunamo faktorske vrednosti, ki zajemajo latentno kakovost institucij vsake skupine, in uvrstimo Slovenijo na evropsko lestvico kakovosti institucij (ELKI) v vsakem letu. Izkaže se, da v mednarodni primerjavi naša država po kakovosti ekonomskih institucij stagnira, po kakovosti političnih pa pada. Najslabše jo odnese pri pravnih institucijah, kjer najhitreje izgublja mednarodno konkurenčnost. Rezultati dinamike institucij v Sloveniji kažejo,da ekonomske in politične institucije nazadujejo le relativno (mednarodno),medtem ko lahko pogojno zatrdimo, da se absolutno (v državi) izboljšujejo. Članek potrjuje še prevladujoče javno mnenje o nedelovanju pravne države, saj razkriva, da se kakovost pravnih institucij v Sloveniji slabša relativno (mednarodno), pa tudi absolutno (v državi), kar je najbolj skrb zbujajoče. // This paper focuses on institutions within the field of New Institutional Economics. The paper sets up a common framework for examininginstitutions, and then uses this framework to depict the dynamics of the institutional environment in Slovenia, both in an international comparison as well as within the country. The different classifications systems for institutions are presented and discussed, and then the empirical proxies for institutions are clustered within the most suitable classification system, which sorts institutions into three homogenous institutional groups: legal, political and economic institutions. Within each group, we calculate the latent institutional factors for all European countries, which denote the quality of institutions, and use these factor scores to rank Slovenia on the European quality of institutions index (EQII) in each year. The results show that Slovenia is stagnating in an international comparison of economic institutions, while it is slowly loosing competitiveness in political institutions. The worst result is seen in the dynamics of legal institutions, where the loss of international competitiveness for Slovenia is the quickest and largest. The results of institutional dynamics within Slovenia imply that economic and political institutions are worsening only relatively in comparison to other countries, but are improving absolutely within the country, while the legalinstitutions are both worsening relatively to the others, as well as absolutely within the country. Furthermore, this paper confirms the mainstream public perception of a poorly functioning legal state, as the quality of legal institutions in Slovenia is declining relatively - internationally, as well as absolutely - within the country, which is a cause of utmost concern. |