In the thesis, we dealt with intergenerational differences in the forms and methods of political
participation. We found that members of older generations are more involved in conventional
participation (elections and political parties), while younger people are more active outside
these institutions, in protest participation. In this master's thesis, we focused on elections, which
are at the core of representative democracy and the act through which an active citizen becomes
active. We started from the hypothesis that political attitudes and political orientations predict
people's voting behavior. We focused on 5 main factors of electoral participation: political
interest, political competence, political effectiveness, political loyalty and political legitimacy.
The emphasis was on the differences in the cognitive and affective aspects of political culture,
which are linked to the demographic variable age and the generation variable derived from it.
However, the emphasis was not on aging processes, which are linked to the life cycle of
individuals, but on the generational effect, which is manifested in changes in political culture
in the process of changing generations. We found that here in Slovenia, a general change from
the politics of loyalty to the politics of choice has not yet taken place, which has negative
consequences for the development of parliamentary democracy. The democratic deficit is the
main obstacle to the consolidation of democracy on Slovenian soil.
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