SLOVENSKÉ MIMOVLÁDNE „ROZVOJOVÉ“ ORGANIZÁCIE AKO POLITICKÍ AKTÉRI

The article attempts to pose questions about the political character of the Slovak non-governmental „development“ organizations. It first uses three typologies to ask what kind of actor they are. Then it focuses on the period before 1998 to ask about the continuities in the political activities of the NGDOs after 1998 with the NGOs before the fall of Vladimír Mečiar’s government. In the last section it focuses on their advocacy work, reproduction of colonial stereotypes, corruption abroad and the problem of ownership as political issues that are salient for the Slovak NGDOs.