CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Tant, Laurence Bear |
|---|---|
| Title | Moderation of Nationalist Parties in Bulgaria |
| Summary | During the previous Bulgarian parliamentary election in 2017, the leading center right party, GERB, has entered a governing coalition with the United Patriots. The United Patriots are an electoral coalition of three nationalist parties with radical pasts and are led by personalistic leaders raising concerns of a highly nationalist government in Bulgaria. This thesis aims to discover whether these three parties have moderated while they have been part of the governing coalition and under the watchful eye of the European Union. The hypothesis is that these three parties have moderated under the presence of both the European Union and GERB. By utilizing a Likert scale that investigates each of the individual three members of the United Patriots to see if they have moderated in the period between 2007 and 2018. The results show that these three parties have moderated and there are indications that pressure from both the European Union and GERB was responsible for this moderation in these three Bulgarian ultranationalist parties. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/tant_laurence.pdf |
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