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Boryana Ilieva Evlogieva
Democracy - a Current Myth
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The present study is an attempt for a more critical look at the contemporary democracy, if it is reality at all. Public consciousness has built up its image on the ideas since the time of Aristotle up to present days. But the task is to have a look at and analyze the contemporary democracy from a more different position – this of the mythological thinking. The conclusion is that a huge discrepancy between the democracy as an idea, as a theory and the real organization and management of the society, is a fact. The idea has been developed and enriched since ancient times till nowadays, but is still far from its practical realization – something that turns it into a myth.
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Nikolay Zhivkov
Democracy in the Writings of Venelin Ganev
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Venelin Ganev’s publications from the beginning of the last century view the requirements to the subjects of the government process for democracy when participating in it. In the mid 40s he presents his complete view of democracy. It is defined as a form of state structure and state government.
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Nikola Zhivkov, Marieta Zhivkova
The Role of Democracy in Reaching Public Consolidation
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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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Nikolay Zhivkov
On the Principles and the Mission of Democracy
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Nikolay Zhivkov
Parliamentary Governance and Democracy in Bulgaria (1878-1918)
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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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Danko Tarabar, Joshua Hall
After War: the Political Economy of Exporting Democracy. By Christopher J. Coyne. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008
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Can liberal democracy be exported at gunpoint? Are military occupation and reconstruction effective methods for establishing permanent liberal democracies? While many international relations scholars have utilized the tools of economics (such as game theory) to help answer these questions, few economists have systematically attempted to provide an answer this question using both economic theory and history. Christopher Coyne’s After War fills in this gap and provides valuable insight into the problems the United States faces when trying to establish law and order by force in weak and failed states.
