The Social and Political Foundations of Nationalism in South East Europe after 1878: A Reinterpretation

2002 ◽  
pp. 352-384
Keyword(s):  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Foundations

scholarly journals Explaining the Undeclared Economy in Bulgaria: an Institutional Asymmetry Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin C. Williams ◽  
Josip Franic ◽  
Rositsa Dzhekova
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
East Europe ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
Formal And Informal Institutions ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Civic Morality

Abstract This paper proposes a way of explaining the undeclared economy that represents participation in undeclared work as a violation of the social contract between the state and its citizens, and as arising when the informal institutions comprising the norms, values and beliefs of citizens (civic morality) do not align with the codified laws and regulations of a society’s formal institutions (state morality). Drawing upon evidence from 1,018 face-to-face interviews conducted in Bulgaria during 2013, the finding is that the greater is the asymmetry between formal and informal institutions (i.e., citizens’ civic morality and state morality), the greater is the likelihood of participation in the undeclared economy, and vice versa. The outcome is that tackling the undeclared economy requires a focus upon reducing this lack of alignment of formal and informal institutions. How this can be achieved in Bulgaria in particular and South-East Europe and beyond more generally, is then discussed.

State-socialist Transformations in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 258-269
Author(s):  
Dieter Segert
Keyword(s):  
State Socialism ◽  
East Europe ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Classical State ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
State Socialist

This chapter examines European state socialism, which emerged in the Russian Revolution of 1917. It has two roots, the social democratic labour movement and specific problems of underdeveloped, peripheral capitalist societies. While generally relying on Marx, the Bolsheviks invented the doctrine of the ‘new type of party’. After the conquest and stabilization of power, they built in Russia the institutions of classical state socialism and led the country on a specific path of modernization. After 1945, there was a second wave of state-socialist transformation in eight states of East Central and South East Europe. In all countries except Yugoslavia, the formal institutions of the Soviet model were established but the informal practices between countries differed considerably. At the end of the chapter, the blind spots and desiderata of three scholarly interpretations of state socialism are discussed.

Varna and the social context of early metallurgy

Antiquity ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (206) ◽  
pp. 199-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Renfrew
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
High Status ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
Egalitarian Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Metallurgy

The discovery of what is demonstrably, on the basis of present knowledge, the earliest major assemblage of gold artifacts to be unearthed anywhere in the world is an event of some note, comparable in significance with Schliemann's find of the Great Treasure at Troy more than a century ago. The finds at Varna must be at least 1,500 years older than those of Troy 11, yet apart from the original announcement by their excavator (Ivanov, 1975), and useful, although brief, descriptions by Gimbutas (1977 a and b), the Varna cemetery has so far excited little archaeological comment. The publication by Ivanov (1978) of the first well-illustrated account of the cemetery allows an assessment of its importance. Its status as the oldest substantial find of gold emphasizes the position of south-east Europe as an early and independent centre of metallurgical innovation. But the gold is only one of several materials indicative of high status in the cemetery: what had hitherto seemed a moderately egalitarian society now displays clear evidence of salient ranking. This in turn has major implications for our understanding of the social context in which early metalworking in Europe developed and prospered.

scholarly journals The social structure of the south-east European societies in the moddle ages – a linguistic view

Linguistica ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Sorin Paliga
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Large Area ◽  
East Europe ◽  
East European ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
South West ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this paper is to review several terms spread over a quite large area in South-East Europe. The starting point of our investigation is the Romanian language understood  as inheriting an important  Thracian vocabulary, specifically referring to the social and political structure of the Early Middle Ages. The terms discussed are not exlusively Romanian. In fact, they reflect - roughly speaking - the ancient extension of the Thracian speakers, i.e. the present-day territories of Romania, Bulgaria, Soviet Moldavia and parts of South- and South-West ·ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

scholarly journals Chosen Model of Privatization of Socially Owned Enterprise in Kosovo Over Kosovo Trust Agency

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Bajram Fejzullahu
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
The Political ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Unemployment Problem ◽  
Social Property

Unlike in the countries of Central and South-East Europe, where the transformation of property and political transition were smooth and peaceful, in the countries of former Yugoslavia (except Montenegro and Macedonia) these processes were accompanied by war; the effects are present even nowadays. After 1999, it was Kosovo’s turn to be part of these changes. Normally, in these processes, the political transition occurs prior to the transformation of property. This was not the case in Kosovo, where the order was reversed. It cannot be said that the privatisation method chosen by UNMIK was not the best. As of now, this method has failed to fulfil its duties of economic recovery and solve the unemployment problem. UNMIK has chosen the method of transforming the social property of Kosovo as a set up for the total transition of the political system, which later on would be one of the main elements and will serve to proclaim independence of Republic of Kosovo. It will remain an unanswered question whether the method that used is actually better, whether it is more productive economically, or not. As Kosovo’s case for many things is sui generis, and as far as the process of privatisation of the social property is concerned, it is a process which tried to adjust to the existing circumstances in Kosovo, circumstances which were earlier unknown in the other countries.

scholarly journals Chosen Model of Privatization of Socially Owned Enterprise in Kosovo Over Kosovo Trust Agency

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Bajram Fejzullahu
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
The Political ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Unemployment Problem ◽  
Social Property

Unlike in the countries of Central and South-East Europe, where the transformation of property and political transition were smooth and peaceful, in the countries of former Yugoslavia (except Montenegro and Macedonia) these processes were accompanied by war; the effects are present even nowadays. After 1999, it was Kosovo’s turn to be part of these changes. Normally, in these processes, the political transition occurs prior to the transformation of property. This was not the case in Kosovo, where the order was reversed. It cannot be said that the privatisation method chosen by UNMIK was not the best. As of now, this method has failed to fulfil its duties of economic recovery and solve the unemployment problem. UNMIK has chosen the method of transforming the social property of Kosovo as a set up for the total transition of the political system, which later on would be one of the main elements and will serve to proclaim independence of Republic of Kosovo. It will remain an unanswered question whether the method that used is actually better, whether it is more productive economically, or not. As Kosovo’s case for many things is sui generis, and as far as the process of privatisation of the social property is concerned, it is a process which tried to adjust to the existing circumstances in Kosovo, circumstances which were earlier unknown in the other countries.

scholarly journals Phytochemical, ethanomedicinal and pharmacological applications of escin from Aesculus hippocastanum L. towards future medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Idris ◽  
Anuradha Mishra ◽  
Mohd Khushtar
Keyword(s):  
Essential Fatty Acids ◽  
Bioactive Compound ◽  
Aesculus Hippocastanum ◽  
Horse Chestnut ◽  
Triterpenoid Saponin ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Times

AbstractMedicinal plants are used from ancient times for treatment of various ailments. Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse chestnut), is the popular and most valuable tree native to the South East Europe. It’s seed extracts and their concentrates contain phytocompounds like flavonoids, polyphenols, triterpenoid saponin glycosides (escin), epicatechin, tannins, kaempferol, esculin, fraxin, carbohydrate, essential fatty acids (linoleic acid), oleic acid and purine bases (adenine and guanine). Due to these vital phyto-constituents, horse chestnut is used in phytomedicine for the prevention and treatment of diverse disorders as in venous congestion in leg ulcers, bruises, arthritis, rheumatism, diarrhoea, phlebitis etc. We collected the pharmacological applications of Aesculus hippocastanum L. extracts and escin as the cheif bioactive compound and their uses in traditionally and clinically for the management of various disorders. This review describes the efficacy of A. hippocastanum L. extracts and their bioactive compounds. So in the furtue this plant may be useful for the alternative treatment measure for various ailments via incorporating either extract or escin into novel delivery systems for improving the social health in future and would provide improved quality of life.

The impac t of carbon prices on CCS investment in South East Europe

2014 ◽  
pp. 91-120
Author(s):  
Vladimir Franki ◽  
Vladimir Valentic ◽  
Alfredo Viskovic
Keyword(s):  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Carbon Prices
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