64 research outputs found
Bringing in the experts: blame deflection and the COVID-19 crisis
No full textThe current political emphasis on ‘the experts’ is partly a depoliticisation and blame deflection strategy to render them, instead of the politicians, as the public face of the coronavirus crisis, write Matthew Flinders and Gergana Dimova
Book review: The new despotism by John Keane
No full textIn The New Despotism, John Keane revives this term to examine how the ‘new despotism’ functions today through qualitatively different characteristics and processes to its older forms. As the book skilfully identifies how the new despotism thrives on ambiguity above all, this is a perceptive study that will shift the analytical lens through which despotic regimes are viewed, writes Gergana Dimova, and offers a warning to the complacency of liberal democracies
Book review: The new despotism by John Keane
No full textIn The New Despotism, John Keane revives this term to examine how the ‘new despotism’ functions today through qualitatively different characteristics and processes to its older forms. As the book skilfully identifies how the new despotism thrives on ambiguity above all, this is a perceptive study that will shift the analytical lens through which despotic regimes are viewed, writes Gergana Dimova, and offers a warning to the complacency of liberal democracies
Book review: Democracy Beyond Elections: government accountability in the media age by Gergana Dimova
No full textIn Democracy Beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age, Gergana Dimova examines the impact that the rise of the media age has had on government accountability, focusing on the cases of Germany, Bulgaria and Russia. This is an important and timely contribution to the revitalisation of democracy studies, writes Georges Kordas, and shows how accountability can be a tool for citizens but also wielded by those in power
Book review: Democracy Beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age by Gergana Dimova
No full textIn Democracy Beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age, Gergana Dimova examines the impact that the rise of the media age has had on government accountability, focusing on the cases of Germany, Bulgaria and Russia. This is an important and timely contribution to the revitalisation of democracy studies, writes Georges Kordas, and shows how accountability can be a tool for citizens but also wielded by those in power
The state of the field: maps, gaps and traps
No full textThis chapter maps the existing knowledge base as it relates to the analysis of blame. It undertakes this exercise in conceptual cartography in response to concerns that the existing knowledge base is as scattered as it is diffused. A sophisticated bibliometric analysis dating back several decades provides a data-based foundation for this chapter, and allows the authors to highlight a core spine of scholarship. It also identifies a number of ‘gaps’ and ‘traps’ in relation to the study of blame. The former ‘gaps’ relating to areas or topics that have not formed the focus of blame-theoretic research; the latter ‘traps’ highlighting dominant assumptions that are very rarely questioned let alone challenged within the existing research base. The research presented in the chapter also indicates the existence of a number of central reference points, a lack of connective intellectual tissue between approaches and a number of emergent themes that demand further analysis. The final section seeks to stretch and push the boundaries of how, why and where the politics and governance of blame (and therefore credit) is approached and understood
Gergana Noutcheva: European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession: Conditionality, Legitimacy and Compliance
No full textIn this book Gergana Noutcheva aims to increase knowledge on the impact of EU policy in its neighboring countries. The author is an associate professor in International Relations and European Foreign Policy at the University of Maastricht. Her research focuses on the EU enlargement and neighborhood policy, in particular the impact of the EU on the domestic structures of non-EU countries
"За нас, библиотекарите, е важно да покажем проверените информационни ресурси"
No full textGergana Martinova has worked in the Library of New
Bulgarian university for 23 years, the last 8 as a
Head of the Library and Information Department
services'. She has a master's degree in "Library and information
sciences" with a second major "Communications in everyday life and business' and Master’s in Public Administration from
New Bulgarian University. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal
"Bibliosphere" (2005-2016). She was nominated twice in the
Librarian of the Year category of the annual
awards of the Bulgarian Library and Information Society
association. She is an author of numerous publications. We spoke wit
Understanding Accountability: New Perspectives on a Fractured World
No full textThis book brings clarity and understanding to the concept of accountability through the lens of conceptual political analysis. As the structure of the modern state has become more complex, the architecture of accountability has itself needed to evolve and re-orientate in an attempt to keep pace. This has led to an increased emphasis not on accountability per se but on different kinds or types of accountability. As such, it is argued here that accountability has emerged to become a concept with adjectives and there is a real need to properly understand accountability in an increasingly fractured world. The theoretical and analytical glue that binds all of the chapters in this collection is a commitment to working within the contours of the work of the philosopher, Giovanni Sartori. This is an approach that has been used to tease apart and interrogate a range of concepts including terrorism, governance, coups, gender equality, deliberation, warfare, clientelism, hybrid regimes, democracy, right through to art, love, rape and violence. It is also an approach that facilitates the cultivation of complex debates concerning the limits of conceptual flexibility. The volume consists of twelve chapters, grouped into three main parts. The introductory part provides the foundations for the collection. Part I on Power explores the normative dimensions of accountability as a means to control and regulate power. Part II on Politics focuses inter alia on accountability following a period of crisis and the emergence of new technology such as algorithms. The final part, Part III, on Particularities looks at concepts such as social accountability and what is meant by supplementary accountability. This broad-ranging collection increases the conceptual toolkit that social and political scientists and lawyers can use to interrogate change at a number of levels and in a range of sectors. Whether through a focus on moral, individual or gendered accountability, or through a shift towards clashing, stakeholder or social accountability, there is a clear flow and coherence through the chapters. The volume will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal and Political Theory, Legal and Political Philosophy and Accountability Studies
Judicialisation of Government Accountability in Bulgaria: Crisis or Transformation of Democracy?
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