Svetlana Stamenova

Born in 1960, in Pavlikeni, Bulgaria

Ph.D., Institute of Political Studies, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1999

Dissertation: Structural and Axiological Determinants of Political Support: Comparative Analysis of Poland and Bulgaria

Associate Professor, “Kliment Ohridski” University, Sofia

Associate Professor, “Neofit Rilski” University, Blagoevrag

Associate Professor, New Bulgarian University, Sofia

Research fellow, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Local Faculty Scholar, Civic Education Project, Bulgaria, 1999 – 2001

Author of the cross-national comparative survey Political and Economic Orientations in Southeast European Post-communist Countries in 2001

Author of the the national representative survey Political and Economic Orientations of the Bulgarians in 2000 sponsored by the German Marshal Fund of the US

Worked on the Civic Education Project in collaboration with the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia

Paper: Peculiarities Of Political Culture In Post-Communist Southeast European Countries: The Cases Of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, And Bulgaria

e-mail: stamenova@cblink.net