In this paper, we deal with political participation in the context of political generations. We studied intergenerational differences in political participation.We relied on generational theory, which points out that distinctive political generations differ in patterns of political participation, according to the historical context of their politically formative years. The emphasis of this task is on the relationship between conventional and unconventional political participation. We assumed that members of the older generations would be more active in conventional forms of political participation, while members of the younger generations would be more active in unconventional participatory forms. We compared 5 distinctive generations that are currently present on the Slovenian political scene. The results showed that members of the first post-war generation and the protest generation are more committed to institutionalized forms of political participation, while Generation X and Y operate in both forms of participation at the same time. After the simultaneous participation in both modes of political activity, Generation X stands out the most in our country, which is understandable from the historical context in which their politically formative years were embedded. It was a time of organizing civil society against a political state and a period of transition from a one-party system to a system of parliamentary democracy.
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