Frane Adam

Frane Adam (born 23 November 1948) is a Slovenian sociologist, editor and former dissident political activist.

He studied at the University of Ljubljana, where he became one of the most prominent activists in the Slovenian student movement, which arose as part of the all-European protests of 1968.

[4] In the 1980s, he became, together with Gregor Tomc, one of the first Slovenian and Yugoslav sociologists to study the phenomena of contemporary social movements, with an emphasis of youth subcultures.

[5] In the 1980s, he was active in the civil society movement in Slovenia and became one of the members of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights.

[9] His research interest is focused on comparative studies of elites and democracy, on theories and indicators of developmental performance as well as on the impact of social capital on knowledge transfer and regional innovation systems.