@article{2020:kostov:inequaliti,
title = {Inequalities and political populism: The case of Bulgaria},
year = {2020},
note = {The article evaluates and analyses the dynamics of inequalities in
Bulgaria during 2010-2020 as quantified by a set of particular
indicators including the Gini coefficient, the S80/S20 indicator and
the share of income held by the richest five per cent. The article
examines the relationship between these inequalities and the growth of
a certain type of political rhetoric which the literature clearly
categorises as populism and which has been rising in central and
eastern Europe as in other places elsewhere. In addition, the most
up-to-date theoretical literature on these issues is studied and
summarised. Social and macroeconomic shocks evidently affect the
development of inequalities and, with the global Covid-19 pandemic, we
are in the middle of one such set of shocks. The article concludes
that a broad public and expert debate is overdue on the problems of
inequalities and the consequences of their growth - namely: the
development of populist rhetoric - and that reforms are required to
reduce inequalities to within parameters that are more socially
acceptable as a means of reducing the incidence of populism.},
journal = {SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe},
pages = {233--244},
author = {Kostov, Lyuboslav},
volume = {23},
number = {2}
}