[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.
Ivan KrastevDemocracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.
Ivan KrastevTransparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
Ivan KrastevBulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
Ivan KrastevBefore, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.
Ivan Krastev