Jacques CHEVALLIER - Professor (université Paris 2)
Antony TODOROV - Professor (nouvelle université Bulgare de Sofia)
Tatyana BURUDJIEVA - Associate Professor (HDR - université de Sofia)
Slobodan MILACIC - Professor (université de Bordeaux 4)
François FRISON-ROCHE - Associate Professor (HDR - université Paris 2)
Anna KRASTEVA - nouvelle université Bulgare
This thesis analyses the reasons of the appearance, the type of discourse, the modes of institutionalization and the social effects generated by the Bulgarian populisms over a period of more than twenty years: from 1992 to 2013.
We argue that Bulgarian populism catalyses a "creeping revolution": it questions the social hierarchies and the channels of political representation that results from the "palace revolution" of 1989; it is a consequence of the dialectic between the institutionalization of the populist ideology as an analytical framework and the impossibility of its implementation by the parties formed around the leaders who mobilize it.