Chapter One: Thirty Years of Bulgarian Democracy: Lessons (Partly)
Learned
Petia Kostadinova
Part I: The National Electoral Process
Chapter Two: Direct Democracy and Electoral System Reform
Tanya Bagashka
Chapter Three: Preferential Voting and Party Loyalty: How Bulgarian
Voters Respond to Parties’ Choices
Tatiana Kostadinova
Chapter Four: Representation Trends in Pledge Making: Do Election
Promises Reflect Distinctions between Political Parties in
Bulgaria?
Petia Kostadinova
Chapter Five: State Capture: A Crippling Political Affliction and
the Search for Antidotes
Stoycho P. Stoychev
Part II: Civil Society
Chapter Six: Bulgarian Populist Nationalism on Digital Steroids:
The Case of Siderov’s Ataka Party
Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Stover
Chapter Seven: The Permutations of Bulgarian Citizens and Migration
Post-1989
Maria Stoilkova
Chapter Eight: Digital Media and the Thinning Out of Civic
Activism: Empowerment/Disempowerment of the Savvy Few
Maria Bakardjieva and Kjell Engelbrekt
Part III: The European Context
Chapter Nine: The Role of Civil Society in EU Policy Implementation
in Bulgaria
Asya Zhelyazkova and Reini Schrama
Chapter Ten: When Anti-establishment and Euroscepticism Converge:
Bulgarian Party Politics 2001-2019
Dragomir Stoyanov and Plamen Ralchev
Chapter Eleven: The Post-Communist Judiciary: One Step Forward, Two
Steps Back
Maria Popova
Chapter Twelve: Concluding Thoughts
Kjell Engelbrekt
Petia Kostadinova is associate professor in the Department of
Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Kjell Engelbrekt is professor at the Swedish Defence University,
visiting professor at Stockholm University, and nonresident senior
fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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