Focused on the French case, this paper aims at investigating a geographical change of electoral support, which is part of wider transformations of the electoral base of the Socialist Party, in particular the trend of working class dealignment. While a specific sociology emerged in “ideopolises”, anchored in the post-industrial and knowledge-based economy, a shift of the traditional socialist el...

There are many ways of moving through a city. Cycling is one which has received considerable attention from urban scholars. Yet it has remained largely neglected within the burgeoning literature on the post-socialist urbanisms of Central and Eastern Europe. This paper uses a case study from Sofia, Bulgaria to address this gap in urban research. By exploring the practices and affordances of cycl...

This paper aims to analyze the effect of human capital on economic growth. Linear regression models with ordinary least squares method have been used for the analysis in which the dependent variable of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth is decided according to real price and independent variables for human capital are enrollment rate in different education levels and also literacy r...

This paper conceptualises an East European type of populism that I call post-peasant. It originated in state-socialist modernisation and mobilises people who are not peasants, but nevertheless value the countryside as morally superior to a life large cities. My major contention is post-peasant emerges under specific cultural-economic conditions, among which institution ‘post-peasant house’ para...

International Family Planning Perspectives Elwood Carlson is professor and Megumi Omori is Ph.D candidate, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. The authors thank Kiril Donkov of the Bulgarian National Statistical Office, Tzveta Timtcheva and Christian Griva of the Bulgarian Ministry of Health, Marta Sougareva and Dimiter Filipov of the Institute of Demograph...