were carried out over the past decade by the CSD (Center for the Study of Democracy) in
Bulgaria. The first project focused on Police Racial Profiling in Bulgaria, and involved a …

Political risks in a post-communist setting Dealing with political risks means dealing with
variables which are not easy to operationalize and measure. The processes they depict are …

This chapter seeks to cast some light on what we do and do not know about prisons in
Africa. It describes the use of imprisonment, prison conditions and the position of …

This paper tackles the issue of “Roma crimes” in Bulgaria and, specifically, how these are
used by the ethnic entrepreneurs. First, I examine trends and outline important problems …

There is a substantial amount of literature on law enforcement and corruption. However,
most of this is on national state law enforcement bodies or specific police units (ie narcotics …

In the recent years, Bulgaria has witnessed excess levels of electoral volatility (especially in
2001 and 2009), marking critical elections that transformed the party system; and even …

DOI: 10.4324/9781315797779-22 It would be an act of honesty to rename prison institutions
as houses for the poor. The renaming would describe in a nutshell recent developments in …

Contemporary Bulgarian democracy faces diverse issues with democratic representation
and legitimacy as well as fluidity of the party system. In the last 25 years we have witnessed …

Inspiration and the research problem: According to theory, as well as previous research,
organized crime and corruption offenses often go hand in hand. While organized crime …