Lecture and Discussion on The Political Crisis in Bulgaria

A public lecture on the Parties and the Crisis of Political Representation was read at the Large Conference Hall by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Simeon Asenov, lecturer and Scientific Secretary of the Political Science Department. The academic discussion on the political crisis in Bulgaria was a continuation of the current topic and in it took part lecturers and students.  

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Simeon Asenov (on the left), Prof. Dr. Antoaneta Vasileva and Prof. Dr. Georgy Yankov

Assoc. Prof. Simeon Asenov structured his presentation on two leading topics: discussion on the crisis of political parties and the issue of parties and political representations in Bulgaria. He examined in historical plan the contradictory assessments for the parties during the last 60 years, examined some fundamental issues of discussion on the crisis, commented the future of representative democracy and the models and representation which they generated, the parties function over the times, reasons for organizational and functional reforms. The lecture analyzed the situation in the modern public environment and organizational forms of parties in the end of XX and beginning of XXI century. Assoc. Prof. Asenov featured also the challenges and possible outcomes of crisis of political parties in three possible scenarios.

In the second part of his exposition the lecturer reviewed the Bulgarian transition and development of parties in our country during the last two decades and pointed out some directions and solutions to be overcome the crisis of parties such as formation of a new type of horizontal structures, change of the attitude towards the civil participation, etc.

After the presentation Prof. Dr. Antoaneta Vasileva, Dean of the International Economics and Politics Faculty bestowed to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Simeon Asenov a Certificate of academic position Associate Professor.

Prof. Dr. Antoaneta Vasileva is handling the Certificate to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Simeon Asenov	During the discussion at the Large Conference Hall

In the further discussion statements were made by Prof. D.Sc. (Soc.) Mihail Mirchev, Prof. D.Sc. (Econ.) Maria Chavdarova, etc. Presenter of the event was Prof. Dr. Georgi Yankov, Head of the Political Science Department.

The lecturer	Students - political scientists