DSB Chairman Radan Kanev announced a few days ago that he is preparing to create a new right-wing political project. According to Kanev, the Reformist Bloc has exhausted its potential, deviated from the right-wing idea and failed in its set goals. That is why he needs a new party to take his place …
More »The ideological vacuum in the "right" parties through the prism of judicial reform
The last few days of political (and public) life have been quite intense and tense. As is well known, the National Assembly did not adopt the most important elements of the changes to the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, proposed by the now former Minister of Justice Hristo Ivanov and supported by the Reformist Bloc. Instead, they were voted …
More »When the state knocks on the door
In public choice theory (which became particularly popular after the Nobel Prize for one of its founders, James Buchanan), there is talk of the so-called "rational ignorance". It is a situation in which the expenditure of resources (time, attention, effort, etc.) required for a person to become informed on a given issue exceeds the potential benefit of learning ...
More »The Bulgarian right – raises taxes and spends more
For those familiar with the nature and history of major political movements in the US and UK, it is clear that one of the main elements of what is considered the “right” is the so-called fiscal conservatism. The idea that the state apparatus should (at a minimum) spend as much as it can collect through the tax system, and …
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