Boyka Stefanova
Biographic Data
| ID | 84555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boyka Stefanova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boyka |
| FAMILY NAME | Stefanova |
| SIGNATURE | STEFANOVA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5162-6834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Revisiting China’s Market Economy Status
This paper examines the question of China’s compliance with market economy principles. China has reformed away from central planning in the past four decades, but has it achieved a fully-fledged market economy? The paper sheds new light on the contested nature of China’s market economy status from a political economy perspective. It draws on the Varieties of Capitalism analytical framework. The paper explains China’s status as a market economy as…
Evolutionary institutionalism in Europe’s neighborhood post-enlargement
Testing the Premises of International Society in the European Energy Union
This paper sheds new light on the policy reality of the European Energy Union on the example of the EU natural gas market. The paper argues that, as the energy union preserves the treaty‐based parallelism between the competences of the EU and the member states, the resolution of conflicts between individual preferences and shared priorities has emerged as a measure of consolidation in the EU energy domain. Which logic prevails: the common good or…
Ethnocultural Voting? Explaining Ethnic Minority Preferences in Bulgarian Elections
Conventional models of electoral choice explain the ethnic minority vote as a product of nonideological factors, primarily ethnic identities. However, the voting preferences of the minority electorate based on their policy and attitudinal dimensions have not been systematically studied. How are minority interests represented in politics? Although their culturally based proximity to ethnic parties and minority representatives is well established, …
An ethnonational perspective on territorial politics in the EU
This paper examines the relationship between European integration and ethnonational demands with the example of selected regions in the European Union (EU). It follows the theoretical premises of new regionalism and explores the ways in which ethnonational groups use the opportunities and resources of European governance to express their identities, material interests, and political demands. Methodologically, it conducts a plausibility probe of t…
European Strategies for Energy Security in the Natural Gas Market
This article examines the European Union's (EU) approach to energy security on the example of its natural gas imports from Russia, the largest supplier of gas to European markets. Two major projects, Nord Stream in the Northern and Western part of the EU, and Nabucco in South-Central Europe, demonstrate opposing energy security strategies, seemingly at odds with the EU objective of achieving energy independence from Russia. The question arises: A…
The European Dimension of Minority Political Representation
The political integration of ethnic minorities is one of the most challenging tasks facing the countries of post-communist Europe. The roads to their political representation in the mainstream political process are numerous and diverse. The EU accession of the Central and East European countries has expanded the scope of the political participation of minorities by adding an electoral process at the regional level: the elections for members of th…
Between ethnopolitics and liberal centrism
This paper examines a less researched aspect of East European party politics: change within ethnic parties, which are conventionally regarded as stable or intransigent political actors. The main argument of the paper is that the decreasing relevance of a bipolar model of political competition has affected the relative positioning of ethnic parties. Their programmatic outlook, role in the party system, and mobilization strategies are being mainstr…
Social failures of EU enlargement
Social failures of EU enlargement: a case of workers voting with their feet, by Guglielmo Meardi, New York and London, Routledge, 2012, 229 pp., $125.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-80679-4 This book
Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe
OSCE and Balkan security
This paper starts with the assertion that in the context of the post-cold war transformation of the European security order, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has emerged as a secondary security actor, maintaining a niche, rather than a leadership profile in regional security. That the OSCE should lose its role as a guardian of the regional order is by itself a puzzle. The Organization has had a formative influence in…
Ethnic nationalism, social structure, and political agency
Why do people vote for radical-right parties? Is radical-right voting determined by social structure and extremist political values, or is it induced by political entrepreneurship? This research tests for competing explanations of electoral support for the radical right on the example of the 2005 Bulgarian parliamentary elections. Methodologically, it performs demand-centred modelling of individual-level data with extensions to contextual variabl…
The 2007 European elections in Bulgaria and Romania
The “No” Vote in the French and Dutch Referenda on the EU Constitution
The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe is widely regarded as a turning point in the history of European integration. It was designed to reconcile two key dimensions of the European construction: the deepening of integration and the need to ensure the democratic character of the European Union (EU). The Constitution provides for the convergence of the model of regional integration and that of democratic government. It contains simplifie…
Nato's Mixed-Policy Motives in the Southeast-European Enlargement
The European Dimension of Minority Political Representation
The political integration of ethnic minorities is one of the most challenging tasks facing the countries of post-communist Europe. The roads to their political representation in the mainstream political process are numerous and diverse. The EU accession of the Central and East European countries has expanded the scope of the political participation of minorities by adding an electoral process at the regional level: the elections for members of th…
An ethnonational perspective on territorial politics in the EU
This paper examines the relationship between European integration and ethnonational demands with the example of selected regions in the European Union (EU). It follows the theoretical premises of new regionalism and explores the ways in which ethnonational groups use the opportunities and resources of European governance to express their identities, material interests, and political demands. Methodologically, it conducts a plausibility probe of t…
The 2007 European elections in Bulgaria and Romania
Ethnic nationalism, social structure, and political agency
Why do people vote for radical-right parties? Is radical-right voting determined by social structure and extremist political values, or is it induced by political entrepreneurship? This research tests for competing explanations of electoral support for the radical right on the example of the 2005 Bulgarian parliamentary elections. Methodologically, it performs demand-centred modelling of individual-level data with extensions to contextual variabl…
Between ethnopolitics and liberal centrism
This paper examines a less researched aspect of East European party politics: change within ethnic parties, which are conventionally regarded as stable or intransigent political actors. The main argument of the paper is that the decreasing relevance of a bipolar model of political competition has affected the relative positioning of ethnic parties. Their programmatic outlook, role in the party system, and mobilization strategies are being mainstr…
Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe
The “No” Vote in the French and Dutch Referenda on the EU Constitution
The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe is widely regarded as a turning point in the history of European integration. It was designed to reconcile two key dimensions of the European construction: the deepening of integration and the need to ensure the democratic character of the European Union (EU). The Constitution provides for the convergence of the model of regional integration and that of democratic government. It contains simplifie…
Nato's Mixed-Policy Motives in the Southeast-European Enlargement
The “No” Vote in the French and Dutch Referenda on the EU Constitution
The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe is widely regarded as a turning point in the history of European integration. It was designed to reconcile two key dimensions of the European construction: the deepening of integration and the need to ensure the democratic character of the European Union (EU). The Constitution provides for the convergence of the model of regional integration and that of democratic government. It contains simplifie…
The 2007 European elections in Bulgaria and Romania
OSCE and Balkan security
This paper starts with the assertion that in the context of the post-cold war transformation of the European security order, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has emerged as a secondary security actor, maintaining a niche, rather than a leadership profile in regional security. That the OSCE should lose its role as a guardian of the regional order is by itself a puzzle. The Organization has had a formative influence in…
Ethnic nationalism, social structure, and political agency
Why do people vote for radical-right parties? Is radical-right voting determined by social structure and extremist political values, or is it induced by political entrepreneurship? This research tests for competing explanations of electoral support for the radical right on the example of the 2005 Bulgarian parliamentary elections. Methodologically, it performs demand-centred modelling of individual-level data with extensions to contextual variabl…
Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe
European Strategies for Energy Security in the Natural Gas Market
This article examines the European Union's (EU) approach to energy security on the example of its natural gas imports from Russia, the largest supplier of gas to European markets. Two major projects, Nord Stream in the Northern and Western part of the EU, and Nabucco in South-Central Europe, demonstrate opposing energy security strategies, seemingly at odds with the EU objective of achieving energy independence from Russia. The question arises: A…
The European Dimension of Minority Political Representation
The political integration of ethnic minorities is one of the most challenging tasks facing the countries of post-communist Europe. The roads to their political representation in the mainstream political process are numerous and diverse. The EU accession of the Central and East European countries has expanded the scope of the political participation of minorities by adding an electoral process at the regional level: the elections for members of th…
Between ethnopolitics and liberal centrism
This paper examines a less researched aspect of East European party politics: change within ethnic parties, which are conventionally regarded as stable or intransigent political actors. The main argument of the paper is that the decreasing relevance of a bipolar model of political competition has affected the relative positioning of ethnic parties. Their programmatic outlook, role in the party system, and mobilization strategies are being mainstr…
Social failures of EU enlargement
Social failures of EU enlargement: a case of workers voting with their feet, by Guglielmo Meardi, New York and London, Routledge, 2012, 229 pp., $125.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-80679-4 This book
Ethnocultural Voting? Explaining Ethnic Minority Preferences in Bulgarian Elections
Conventional models of electoral choice explain the ethnic minority vote as a product of nonideological factors, primarily ethnic identities. However, the voting preferences of the minority electorate based on their policy and attitudinal dimensions have not been systematically studied. How are minority interests represented in politics? Although their culturally based proximity to ethnic parties and minority representatives is well established, …
An ethnonational perspective on territorial politics in the EU
This paper examines the relationship between European integration and ethnonational demands with the example of selected regions in the European Union (EU). It follows the theoretical premises of new regionalism and explores the ways in which ethnonational groups use the opportunities and resources of European governance to express their identities, material interests, and political demands. Methodologically, it conducts a plausibility probe of t…
Testing the Premises of International Society in the European Energy Union
This paper sheds new light on the policy reality of the European Energy Union on the example of the EU natural gas market. The paper argues that, as the energy union preserves the treaty‐based parallelism between the competences of the EU and the member states, the resolution of conflicts between individual preferences and shared priorities has emerged as a measure of consolidation in the EU energy domain. Which logic prevails: the common good or…
Evolutionary institutionalism in Europe’s neighborhood post-enlargement
Revisiting China’s Market Economy Status
This paper examines the question of China’s compliance with market economy principles. China has reformed away from central planning in the past four decades, but has it achieved a fully-fledged market economy? The paper sheds new light on the contested nature of China’s market economy status from a political economy perspective. It draws on the Varieties of Capitalism analytical framework. The paper explains China’s status as a market economy as…
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · European union (8 works) · International trade (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (7 works)