Off on the Wrong Foot: A Process-Tracing Analysis of the Collapse of the Bulgarian Banking System
(2024) SIMZ11 20241Graduate School
- Abstract
- The transitional processes that took place in the post-communist states of the former Eastern Bloc present researchers with a plethora of problems that require the reconceptualization of established ideas within the political science scholarship. However, the literature on post-communist transitions is sparse and this thesis contributes to the field by conducting an explaining-outcome process tracing analysis of the collapse of the Bulgarian banking system in 1997. Using Venelin Ganev’s conceptualization of post-communist transitions, this thesis develops a minimally-sufficient causal mechanism that traces the events within the Bulgarian banking system between 1991 and 1997 with the goal of explaining its collapse. The data for the study... (More)
- The transitional processes that took place in the post-communist states of the former Eastern Bloc present researchers with a plethora of problems that require the reconceptualization of established ideas within the political science scholarship. However, the literature on post-communist transitions is sparse and this thesis contributes to the field by conducting an explaining-outcome process tracing analysis of the collapse of the Bulgarian banking system in 1997. Using Venelin Ganev’s conceptualization of post-communist transitions, this thesis develops a minimally-sufficient causal mechanism that traces the events within the Bulgarian banking system between 1991 and 1997 with the goal of explaining its collapse. The data for the study consists of three interviews, as well as academic and journalistic written sources. The results of the study indicated that the collapse of the banking system was caused by the extensive extractive practices of Bulgarian predatory elites and their attempts at maintaining a precarious status quo within the banking system. (Less)
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- author
- Zdravkov, Zdravko LU
- supervisor
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- Anders Uhlin LU
- organization
- course
- SIMZ11 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- post-communism, transition, Central and Eastern Europe, process tracing, predatory elites
- language
- English
- id
- 9159747
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-26 12:34:47
- date last changed
- 2024-06-26 12:34:47
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abstract = {{The transitional processes that took place in the post-communist states of the former Eastern Bloc present researchers with a plethora of problems that require the reconceptualization of established ideas within the political science scholarship. However, the literature on post-communist transitions is sparse and this thesis contributes to the field by conducting an explaining-outcome process tracing analysis of the collapse of the Bulgarian banking system in 1997. Using Venelin Ganev’s conceptualization of post-communist transitions, this thesis develops a minimally-sufficient causal mechanism that traces the events within the Bulgarian banking system between 1991 and 1997 with the goal of explaining its collapse. The data for the study consists of three interviews, as well as academic and journalistic written sources. The results of the study indicated that the collapse of the banking system was caused by the extensive extractive practices of Bulgarian predatory elites and their attempts at maintaining a precarious status quo within the banking system.}},
author = {{Zdravkov, Zdravko}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Off on the Wrong Foot: A Process-Tracing Analysis of the Collapse of the Bulgarian Banking System}},
year = {{2024}},
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