ABSTRACT
In Slovenia, as elsewhere in Europe, populist parties and actors have enjoyed and still enjoy considerable social influence, but populism is generally an under-researched area. In this chapter, we show how a general differentiation can be made between two waves of research. In the first wave—starting in the 1990s and continuing into the early 2000s—the scholarly emphasis was on exclusionary populism, whereas in the second wave, which picked up in the early 2000s, scholars have started to emphasize anti-elitist tendencies, or what can be labeled anti-elitist populism in Jagers and Walgrave’s (2007) typology.
