Political Identification Theory in Bulgaria Assignment
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Added on 2020-04-21
Political Identification Theory in Bulgaria Assignment
Added on 2020-04-21
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Political Identification Theory in BulgariaThe following write up is development of political party identification theory in Bulgaria. The theory will hypothesis on dependent variables that make people identify themselves as Socialist, Nationalist or Liberal within a country’s political parties. The parties in Bulgaria are GERB, Patriotic Block, and BSP. These parties represent a big deal of ideologies such GERB is conservative, BSP is socialist, and Patriotic Block is an alliance of Nationalists1. GERB has 95 parliament seats out of the total 240 and a popular vote of 32%. GERB is the most popular party and is lead by Boyko Borisov who is the incumbent prime mister of Bulgarian. BSP is an acronym for Bulgarian Socialist Party which is the second popular party in Bulgaria with 27%. BSP has 80 seats out of the total 240 seats in Bulgarian Parliament and is the official opposition party in the country. Patriotic block Party is made of nationalist electoral alliance from different political parties in Bulgaria. These alliances include National Front Salvation of Bulgarian and Bulgarian National Movement. The party has no parliamentary seat and only has one seat in the European Parliament. The Party had 19 parliamentary seats in 2014 with a popular vote of 7.29%2.The following theory hypothesizes that a person age, economic-classes, religion, and ethnic belonging determine the party identification of an individual to Socialist, Nationalist or Liberal as the ideologies are represented by the country’s political parties. Age in this theory refers to an independent variable on the age category of an individual that can either be 18-35, 36-55, 56-over. People in different age category have different perception and have different priorities that define their identity. Young people (18-35) are energetic, ambitious (think of a perfect world) and open to new ideas in life that lead to a political party alignment in liberalizationn3. People between the age of 36 and 50 are parents and focus much of their energy to preparing better
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