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Prof. James Robinson: “I don’t think that Bulgaria is a failed State”
“I think that Bulgaria has been very successful. It is just that Bulgaria and the Bulgarians are the biggest pessimists. I understand there is a heavy institutional inheritance and how difficult it is to change that. That is why it is important for you to have a collective vision of how society should look like”. […]
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Prof. James Robinson, co-author of the bestseller “Why Nations Fail” will hold a public lecture in Sofia by an invitation of the Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza”
Will Bulgaria enter the successful nations club? What role institutions play and why some states manage to establish more functional institutions than others? Is there a historical dogma that no state can hide or overcome? Is poverty a result of culture, climate, geography? The Harvard professor James Robinson is to hold a public lecture on […]
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Global ethic vs. national interest
Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity’s greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk calling for a global ethic, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown fields questions from TED Curator Chris Anderson.
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The National Program 2013/2014 is now closed
The final course of the National Program, dedicated to the European Policies just finished. The last session was on the topic of “Campaign Elections”. The director of “ProMedia” Mr. Petko Georgiev explained the specifics of the campaigns for the national and the European parliament. The participants received information for the “Forum on Democracy” in Strasbourg.
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The Charity Night of year 2014 gathered 15 000lv.
The charity night organized by the participants of the Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza”, took place in Pravetz on 15th March. The cause was “Rehabilitation and care for prematurely born kids in Bulgaria”. The collected money will be given for the purchase of equipment for a neonatologial ward in the hospital for active treatment […]
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Igor Kogut: “We are pessimistic about the possible future scenarios on Ukraine”
“I do not believe that NATO forces will take any military action on Ukrainian territory, because that will mean a Third World War”. This is what the director of the Ukrainian School of Political Science – Igor Kogut said, who was a special guest-speaker in the National Program “Governing Skills” of the Bulgarian School of […]
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Youth unemployment – a European priority
The participants discussed policies regarding solutions to youth unemployment in a debate on the topic. The discussion was led by a journalist from the Bulgarian National TV and presenter of the TV program “Referendum “- Dobrina Cheshmedzhieva.
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Yousef Laraaj: “Bulgaria and Morocco can work together for improving citizen participation”
The Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza” and the Civil School for Political Studies in Morocco should exchange experience in order to work for democratization and to involve more people in civil society”. This is what the director of the Moroccan School of Politics, Yousef Laraaj said, who was a special guest in the rubric […]
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The Fourth Course of the National Program Began
The fourth course of the National Programme “Governing Skills”, dedicated to European policies and principles of the good governance in the EU, began today at the Riu Hotel in Pravets. The participants presented their measures for judicial reform. They were divided into four groups; they received profiles of four different parties and had to develop […]
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The next age of government
The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party says we’re entering a new era — where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on behavioral economics, he explores how these trends could be turned into smarter policy..