Project name:
Challenges to Representative Democracy Today
Project type:
research project
Duration:
18.12. 2008 – 18.06.2012
Members:
- associate prof. Dimitar Vatsov
- prof. Kolyo Koev
- prof. Stliyan Yotov
- prof. Hristo Tododrov
- associate prof. Boyan Znepolski
- prof. Krassimir Stoyanov
- associate prof. Boyan Manchev
- research associate Martin Kanoushev
- assistant prof. Emil Grigorov
- assistant prof. Todor Dechev
- associate prof. Milena Yakimova
- assistant prof. Hristo Gyoshev
- assistant prof. Mila Mineva
- assistant prof. Vanya Serafimova
- teachig assistant Momchil Hristov
- associate prof. Albena Hranova
- assistant prof. Darin Tenev
- Elitza Stanoeva, PhD
Topics
- Interdisciplinary perspectives and methods for diagnostics of contemporary societies and for analysis of the normative dictionaries
- Social critics today as a symptom in diagnostics of the representative democracy problems
- Theoretical dictionary where the connections among citizenship, justice, legitimacy and sovereignty might be thought
- Basic theoretical models and normative dictionaries of political and social theory
Donors
with the financial support of National Science Fund
Issues
- Which are the main challenges to the representative democracy in the contemporary societies?
- What are the meanings of justice in the contemporary societies?
- The question concerning the legality and the (il)legitimacy of power in the contemporary societies
- Social critics and civil society today
- Citizenship and sovereignty in the contemporary societies: national and European contexts