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Countering corruption is part of the efforts to build democratic public institutions and streanghtening the role of the civil society. The achieved results in preventing corrupt practices are important to measure the success of the transition and introduce modern stadarnds of transparency and democratic control. The present manual, developed by the CSD in the framework of the project Prevention of Corruption in the Security Forces, aims to promote anti-corruption education as an important instrument to prevent corruption. The reader is specifically designed for the curricula of the military high schools in Bulgaria.
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The conference report with papers and articles about the informal economy in the accession countries is published in the framework of the project "The Informal Economy in the EU Accession Countries: Size, Scope, Trends and Challenges in the Process of EU Enlargement". It includes papers presented at an International informal economy conference, organized by the Center for the Study of Democracy on 29th and 30th of November, 2002 in Sofia. The first part presents the size, scope and methods for grey economy assessment in the transition and accession countries. The second part is dedicated to the consequences and development of the practical responses in the sphere of the institutional reform and the policy for counteracting the informal economy. The relationship between the informal economy and the organized crime is analyzed as well.
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The reader is a new initiative in the Center for the Study of Democracy’s efforts to create conditions for more information and wider implementation of the best practices of corporate control. It is published in the framework of the Coalition 2000 anticorruption series, describing and promoting the mechanisms and practices to counteract the corruption. In a wider sense the reader is a continuation of the Corporate Governance Initiative which has prepared an Action Plan with recommendations for legislative and practical measures in the sphere of corporate control and a Corporate Governance Assessment Report which makes an attempt to do a quantity estimation based on a number of indicators.
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The reader is the latest edition of anti-corruption series of Coalition 2000 to which CSD serves as Secretariat. The reader is published by one of the Coalition 2000's founding organizations - Applied Research and Communication Fund. It addresses the role of Information Technologies (IT) in public sector reform. It focuses on "the information age" and addresses the need for a comprehensive administrative reform agenda integrated with use of IT. The authors discuss some critical issues that emerge in the process of administrative reform. They provide evidence and figures suggesting that government and public sector organizations are ill-prepared for "the information age". In fact, many existing organizational structures, hierarchies and procedures in government were designed for a different era. IT, together with greater transparency, flatter organizational structures, and simpler procedures can help tackle some of the maladies of government. When used strategically IT can reduce red-tape, improve the quality of citizen-government interface, and increase transparency and public accountability. The reader offers the following definitions : -what it means to "reinvent government in the information age"; -what new models emerge when explaining the success and failure of any reform effort; -practical guidelines on how to improve the process of reform; -international case studies analyzing different aspects of technology-assisted public sector reform. The message to the Bulgarian reader is that electronic networks make government services and operations much more transparent, but they can also lead to new forms of corruption. Such immediate consequences should be considered in the development of administrative reform strategies aimed at combating corruption in Bulgaria.
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Combating Corruption and Fraud in the Public Administration is titled the new anticorruption reader of Coalition 2000's series, called Clear Future. It addresses wide range of readers - civil servants, representatives of legislative and judiciary, students, academicians and NGOs, which contribute in overcoming the corruption problem in Bulgarian society. The first section contains an introduction to the Bulgarian edition by Ms. Svilena Simeonova and Mr. Valeri Dimitrov. The second section outlines the outcomes of various research, recommendations and measures to combat corruption in the public sector developed by the American expert Peter Jones. Detailed consideration is given to the circumstances and the environment, contributing to the development of fraud and corruption in public administration and the role of auditors and auditing as levers in combating these events. The third section presents the European Principles for Public Administration, which would be of great use in implementing public sector reforms in the context of Bulgaria's EU accession negotiations. The reader is published with the support of USAID.
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The reader includes both original treatments and translated texts. It presents the corruption monitoring system of Coalition 2000, with a focus on corruption indexes. The latter represent the Coalition's creative contribution to the attempt to monitor the fluctuations of public ideas and attitudes to this phenomenon. The translated materials include the methodology and indexes of Transparency International, the Bribe Payers Index developed by this international organization and a Corruption Index according to countries. The reader also contains a translation of Graf Lambsdorf's Empirical Studies of Corruption. In addition to the materials of Transparency International, the reader also contains a Global Program against Corruption of the Centre for International Crime Prevention, the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute.
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In his preface to the reader the former Chairman of the National Assembly Yordan Sokolov writes: "After manifestations of corruption and organized crime in Bulgaria were virtually tolerated for a long time due to taking only half-hearted measures, the fight against these criminal manifestations has become a priority task of the legislative and executive after the changes which took place in early 1997." The reader includes the main acts for countering corruption of the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The great interest sparked by the reader affirms its usefulness, especially within the context of the harmonization of domestic legislation with European law.
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This edition is devoted to different aspects of the institution of the specialised healthcare ombudsman and the possibilities for its introduction in Bulgaria. The publication contains an overview of the good practices and the experience in the United Kingdom, Australia, Switzerland and Israel. The edition includes also a detailed summary of a discussion in relation with two draft laws concerning the institution of the health ombudsman and the comments and the recommendations on them of the experts of the Center for the Study of Democracy.
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The current publication analyses the findings of the survey on public trust in Bulgarian police and courts, including personal assessments about the level of corruption in these institutions and the subjective perceptions of fear of crime. Two main factors are moulding the public trust: the state institutions’ effectiveness, their procedural justice and their distributive fairness towards citizens, as well as institutions’ legitimacy, the legality of their actions and the shared moral principles, which build up the obligation to respect the rules and the decisions of these institutions. The publication suggests that Bulgaria should introduce a system of indicators for assessing the public trust in the criminal justice system. These indicators would be instrumental for the more comprehensive definition of the problems, which criminal justice institutions face, and for more effective monitoring of public opinion fluctuations.
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The Judicial Anti-Corruption Program has been developed by eminent Bulgarian lawyers, including magistrates, and has resulted from the combined efforts of influential non-governmental organizations, representatives of state institutions, and experts. In the course of the work the Program was presented to a number of state institutions, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, the media, experts and citizens so that they could provide their opinions, recommendations and proposals. A draft version of the document was discussed at a workshop attended by representatives of the stakeholders. The Judicial Anti-Corruption Program draws on most of the remarks and proposals received and is aimed to prompt a further debate on the discussed issues.
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The Digital sources of information in their traditional meaning – radios, televisions, press and new medias (online platforms, websites, digital blogs etc.) in the spatial trajectory of internet, receive a total comprehensiveness and phenomenal effective power at present days. They influence on people’s understanding and behavior, people’s socialization and emotions, their needs and interests. Work on fundamental changes in all social spheres, institutions, communities and organizational structures, in relations within and between them. At the same time digital sources of information reorganize the existing communication spaces, „revolutionize” long-lived models of culture and practices, advantaging the foundation of new socio-cultural conceptions. They cause modern professions and spheres, cross-media realities. This collective monograph is dedicated to topical subject. It includes academicians from three continents with a significant presence of their respective countries – Asia, Africa and Europe. From Bulgaria participate well-known scientist, as well as young researchers from four universities: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, The University of National and World economy, New Bulgarian University, South West University “Nеeofit Rilski” and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Practically all the dimensions and fundamental reflexion of digital sources of information are presented starting from the changes of interpersonal, group and mass communication, through changes of labour, culture, education, politics, health and the emergence of a new sections and professional options/choices. These issues are especially innovative, because in everyday activities individuals are placed under conditions of coherence with others that is achieved with the mediation of digital sources, developing permanently and comprehensively. Every current events in the group of professional community and organization is easy, when it is stimulated from the new media. However, at the same time digitization require knowledge and use of different searching tools, finding and extracting information, as well as its interpretation and foundation of a new meaning. People become founders of a new meaning and this as a matter of a principle is the unique and the creative that change human form into active social subject. Hopefully this collective monograph to be not only scientific reflexion of the postmodern transformation, but also a useful reading mater for students of all educational levels, as well as young researchers.
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The fifth volume, the last of the Under the shadow of Stalin and Hitler series dedicated to the fate of the European nationas during Stalin's alliance with Hitler, describes the military coup in Belgrade, the preparations for the attack and destruction of Yugoslavia, the occupation regime in Belgium, the surrender of Greece, the bargain for the new boundaries of Southeastern Europe, the anti-British uprising in Iraq, and Stalin's decision to take over the post of a leader of the Soviet Union, the fall of Crete, Hitler's talks with Boris III, Ante Pavelic and Ion Antonescu, and the German Declaration of War against Russia. In the final "Conclusions and lessons", the author shares: "Without the Soviet-Nazi Alliance created by the Nazy-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1939, World War II in Europe would never have erupted. This alliance predetermines the position of forces on a global scale for the next half century. The ultimate winner of World War II is Stalin. The strategic winner, however, is the United States, but democracy will fully realize its victory only with the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and the end of Communism in Eastern Europe. "
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Proceedings of the Annual University Scientific Conference 2018 of the National Military University "Vasil Levski" - Veliko Tarnovo, 14 - 15 June 2018
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Myth and mythology may be defined as an attempt of the human being to put some order in the way of perceiving the surrounding world that appears as chaos. However, those who want to justify their absolute power by a simple and self-evident explanation can easily manipulate this longing for myths, the more so as myth is also a kind of fairy tale. On the other hand, a lie is never hundred percent untrue: it is a combination of obvious facts with half-truths and with sheer untruths.
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The book is published as a result of a national scientific conference “The law and the business in the contemporary society”, which took place at 8 November 2019 in the University of Economics – Varna. The scientific forum was organized by the Legal sciences Department – project SPC – 244/2019, pursuant to contract for partial financing of scientific forum according to Regulation for the conditions and order of evaluation, planning, distribution and spending of funds from the state budget for financing of the inherent for the state higher schools scientific or artistic activity, promulgated State Gazette 73/16.09.2016, effective of 01.01.2017, adopted by decree of the Council of ministers № 233 /10.09.2016 г.
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