Youth Study Politics is Back: Explaining the Recent Political Re-engagement and Rightward Drift among Slovene Youth 2024 5 KEY POINTS ON THE STATE OF POLITICS AMONG SLOVENE YOUTH 1 While still remaining modest, interest in and subjective knowledge of politics have increased across almost all youth groups between 2018 and 2024. Both interest and knowledge have been especially pronounced among the far-right youth, even in 2018, while the politically unaffiliated, albeit improving, have remained the least interested and knowledgeable. 2 Slovenian youth have become much more politically conscious, realising how to place themselves on the political spectrum with greater clarity since 2018. At the same time, their former asymmetric left-wing alignment has been almost completely reversed and replaced with an asymmetric right-wing alignment. On average, young people in Slovenia today lean centre-right. 3 With some notable exceptions, the left-right youth divide is still characterized by the standard left-right demographic, attitudinal, and normative predictors. Nationalist, chauvinist, and authoritarian youth are more likely to identify with the right, while the more tolerant, economically egalitarian, and environmentally inclined hew to the left. The female gender is also more aligned with the left. 4 A significant gender gap has opened up with respect to certain crucial political attitudes, which was previously non-existent. Overall, boys have become less tolerant, and more chauvinist compared to the girls. This change occurred not because girls became more liberal, but because boys became less so. 5 Certain political issues stereotypically associated with young people are not particularly(or even at all) pronounced among Slovene youth. Fewer than 4 out of 10 support lowering the voting age from 18 to 16, and roughly half support the introduction of e-elections, universal basic income, and the legalisation of cannabis.