Bulgarian Values and Beliefs

Arland Thornton, P.I.

This project seeks to collect country development rating scale data from respondents living in Bulgaria. These Bulgarian data will join the growing list of diverse locations from which country development rating scale data has been collected during the past several years. Data collected from Bulgaria will be evaluated to a) determine whether ordinary Bulgarian citizens are able to rate countries around the world on an eleven-point development scale, b) produce a correlation between Bulgarian respondent country development ratings and United Nations country development ratings, and c) compare Bulgarian country development rating data with other research sites where country development ratings have been collected by our research team.

Project Documentation:

Recent Pub

Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Abbas Askari Nodoushan, Arland Thornton. Family Life and Developmental Idealism in Yazd, Iran. Demographic Research

Reading History Sideways

The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton

Recent Pub

Melegh, Thornton, Philipov, Young-DeMarco. Perceptions of Societal Developmental Hierarchies in Europe and Beyond: A Bulgarian Perspective. European Sociological Review

Recent Pub

Thornton, Binstock, Yount, Abbasi-Shavazi, Ghimire, Xie. International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights From the Developmental Idealism Framework. Demography

© 2012
Developmental Idealism
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan