The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices

By I. Krastev. 2002

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Throwing Out the Bums: Protest Voting and Unorthodox Parties after Communism (2010, unknown): “13 Pop-eleches 2001; Krastev 2002; ucen, gyarfasova, and Krivy 2005.”
Institutional asymmetry: How formal and informal institutions affect entrepreneurship in Bulgaria (2015, background): “This is consistent with Krastev (2002), who identified that corruption is engrained in Bulgarian society to differing degrees, ranging from petty bribes to more systemic corruption among government elites and large firms with connections to organised crime.”
Electoral Epidemic: The Political Cost of Economic Crisis in Southern Europe, 2010–11 (2012, background): “The result is the development of ‘democracy without choices’ in which citizens can change governments far more easily than they can change policies (Krastev 2002, p. 51).”
The EU’s political conditionality in the Western Balkans: towards a more pragmatic approach (2008, background): “Most of the Western Balkan states are weak states (albeit with strong national identities), separated by soft (for informal activities) borders, with inexperienced administrations and a high degree of external dependency (Krastev 2002).”