<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lidia Velkova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Facilitating Factors and Effects of Corruption Networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IT4Sec Reports</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">anti-corruption</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">corruption</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">corruption effects</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">corruption factors</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">corruption networks</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">market corruption</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Juli 2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">130</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Institute of Information and Communication Technologies</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sofia</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">At the start of the Twenty first century, corruption turned into a global challenge, with major negative impact on the democratic development and the effective functioning of the market economy, especially for countries in transition, such as Bulgaria. Delineating the forms of corruption according to the degree of public access to corrupt services, provided by public officials, allows classify corrupt practices qualitatively in two groups of a different nature: market corruption and corrupt networks. The latter form of “networked” corruption has its roots in the social relations and, unlike the market form, is based on existing personal relations between public servants and citizens. Hence, it has deeper social roots and heavier destructive consequences for the society and the state.
</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Todor Tagarev</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lidia Velkova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Economic Aspects of the Development of a Vision for Bulgaria’s Defense till 2035</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conference on the Reforms in Bulgaria’s Security Sector</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New Bulgarian University</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sofia</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Todor Tagarev</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lidia Velkova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scenarios for Resource Allocation to Bulgaria’s Defense in the Horizon of 2035</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Defense Management</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">September 2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://omicsgroup.org/journals/scenarios-for-resource-allocation-to-bulgarias-defense-in-the-horizon-of-2035-2167-0374.1000119.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">119</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2167–0374</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Todor Tagarev</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lidia Velkova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scenarios for Resource Allocation to Bulgaria’s Defense in the Horizon of 2035</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Defense Management</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Defense policy; Foresight-based defense planning; Scenario; Drivers; Defense expenditures</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">September 2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">As part of the formulation of a vision for Bulgaria’s force development in the horizon of 2035, the authors were tasked to study the evolution of the economic environment and provide a view on the potential resource allocation to defense. Our study resulted in three scenarios—“Bulgaria in the gray zone of the European economic space,” “Peripheral economy,” and “Catching up economy”—each one plausible under a set of driving factors and conditions. The paper presents the process of scenario design, the scenarios, the respective defense budget levels and the&lt;br&gt;impact on Bulgaria’s defense and armed forces.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">119</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Todor Tagarev</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lidia Velkova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bulgaria’s Defence Policy and Force Size from a Comparative Macro Perspective</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Capability costing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defence budget</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defence policy model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">purchasing power parity.</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">115-128</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The paper presents a novel, theoretically sound approach to the analysis of defence policy and force models and first results of its implementation. The ap­proach is based on comparison of defence policies and cost data under the hypothe­sis that a particular defence policy relates to a specific set of defence capabilities with the respective impact on cost. We identified six factors, or dimensions, of de­fence policy with major impact on the cost of the respective capabilities, and used publicly available data to construct a model of capability cost, expressed in defence budget per active duty military personnel in constant purchasing power parity dol­lars, as a function of the six factors. Then the model was used to define what might be the reasonable force size of the Bulgarian Armed Forces in 2015 under three plausible alternative defence policies. The final section of the paper outlines strengths and limitations of the approach, as well as outputs and potential outcomes from its implementation. 
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