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Nikola Zhivkov, Marieta Zhivkova
The Role of Democracy in Reaching Public Consolidation
Summary:
In this article, we analyzed in historical aspects of the Bulgarian authors related to the formation of the values of democracy. A logical connection with some of them is the analyzed leading goals and principles in the Preamble of the 1991 Constitution. They form the image of constitutional democracy. Based on modern theoretical statements and political practices, the conviction is imposed that, guided by its principles, the political subjects will be able to achieve agreement and consolidation necessary to bring sustainability to the development of society.
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Hrabrin Bashev
To the Question of Economic Study of Agrarian Contracts
Summary:
Arround the globe, a huge number of theoretical and empirical studies and publications related to agrarian contracts of various types have been made. In Bulgaria, the studies of economic contracts in general, and of agrarian contracts in particular, are incidental, with individual researchers applying "their own" definitions and methodologies, which are often contradictory, non-comprehensive and highly debatable. The article attempts to answer several important academic and practical questions: what is an economic contract, what is the difference of the economic approach compared to other (legal, sociological, etc.) approaches to the study of contracts, what is the role of economic contracts in agrarian governance, why there is such a huge variety of contracts used by agents, etc. The achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics are adapted and a holistic framework for the economic understanding and analysis of agrarian contracts and contractual relations in agriculture is presented. The system of agrarian contracts is seen as a complex, networked and multi-layered system, involving a variety of agrarian and non-agrarian Agents, who govern their relations and activities through various contractual Means (types of contracts), participating in the agrarian contractual Process, as a result of which in each particular time period in a given country, region, sub-sector, type of farming, agro-ecosystem, etc. dominates a certain contractual and governance Order. Like the economic analysis of the system of agrarian governance, the holistic analysis of the system of economic contracts is to apply an A-M-P-O approach, which includes an analysis of all its elements - Agents, Means, Process, and Order. The article offers an adequate economic definition of agrarian contracts and characterization of their place in the system of agrarian governance as bilateral or multilateral agreements related to agricultural production and services. After that, an economic characterization of the agents participating in the contractual relations is made, paying particular attention to their bounded rationality and tendency to opportunism. These two characteristics related to "human nature" are the reason for the existence of transaction costs and the need to choose an effective governing (contractual) form to increase the "rationality" of agents and protect against possible opportunism in their relationships.
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Walter E. Block
Secession
Summary:
Secession, political disassociation, can be justified on libertarian grounds, particularly on the basis of the law of free association. We make this case, and then consider objections to this thesis. We conclude with the claim that the war that occurred in the U.S. between 1861 was not a “civil war,” but rather a war of northern aggression.
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Nikolay Zhivkov
Parliamentary Governance and Democracy in Bulgaria (1878-1918)
Summary:
This paper examines how empowered political forces as subjects of parliamentary government have been guided by democracy and what errors have been admitted into their activities at the scene of the Bulgarian political life.
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Tsvetelina Tsanova
Theoretical and Methodological Basis of the Concept "Quality of Life" and its Development as an Economic and Social Category
Summary:
The article outlines and explores the concept of quality of life, as well as its similar essence - standard of living, well-being, subjective well-being, well-being, satisfaction, happiness, trust, freedom, and human rights. The concepts related to the object of research are interpreted, and a definition of quality of life as a major role in the lives of individuals.
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Yuri Borisovich Shubnikov
Digital Rights in the System of Civil Rights Objects: Features and Problems of Legal Registration in Russia
Summary:
In this article, the author attempts to analyze the features of the formation of a uniform legal framework for regulating legal relations in Russia within the digital economy. The author pays special attention to the problems of development of legislation on objects of civil rights that resulted from the development of digital (intellectual) technologies-digital rights and digital money (crypto currency, electronic money).
