ADMINISTRATIVE UNFAIRNESS: THE CASE OF ROMA IN BULGARIA
ADMINISTRATIVE UNFAIRNESS: THE CASE OF ROMA IN BULGARIA

Summary/Abstract: The study makes an attempt to trace on the example of Roma in Bulgaria Gery Becker’s (and other Nobel Prize laureates) regularities of discrimination as a phenomenon that is often caused by social prejudices and believes. The first section reviews what is currently known about the public sentiment towards Roma and summarizes the role of the political parties in fueling those sentiments. The second section describes the implementation of policies dealing with Roma issues, and in particular of the National Roma Integration Strategy for 2012-2020 period. This strategy is selected because this is the lead government document that, presumably, shall be the key instruction for policies applied by the public administration on central and local levels. The third section deals with immediate and long term consequences from social and political believes on Roma property rights, health and life expectancy, income and social status. There two annexes: one gives a list of relevant policy documents and analytical material that guide Roma policies in the EU; the second explains the historic background of property rights situation highlighting the period between 1992 and 2010.

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