Image of Democracy Through Political Documents Lenses

The aim of this paper is to recognise and discuss contemporary relevance and characteristics of traditional types of political documents. Are those documents still relevant in and for the contemporary democracies according to what, how and with what effect are they addressing their target groups? What image of democracy do those documents hold and how can they contribute to the contemporary political situation in party and parliamentary arena? Besides literature review of the already existing similar studies from the field, a specific model for analysing political documents will be presented and applied in the case study of Slovenian parliamentary democracy in the period between 1992-2012. Coding analysis of the contents of electoral manifestos and coalition agreements will be conducted, applying CMP/MARPOR project methodology. Results will be compared between the analysed documents over national parliamentary election cycles and related to the electoral results and prevailing political features of the analysed periods.