The article offers a theoretical reflection on the processes of democratisation in Slovenia, noting the new social movements as a key player initiating and directing the democratic transformation, although we can detect their marginalisation after the consolidation of the "new" or "bourgeois" civil society. The new chronotope of the analysis further shows that the role of social movements was a necessary but not a sufficient condition for political, economic and social changes since during the second phase of the democratisation a political detachment is already underway, culminating in a definitive break with the political elites (old and emerging) already before independence. The key point of contestation and divergence is identified in the opposing understandings of democracy and the democratisation process itself.
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