Year XXXIII, Issue 4s, 2024<<Archive>>
In this issue:
Articles
NUDGE’S PHILOSOPHY OR WHY THE LIBERAL STATE NEEDS WOODEN IRON
Nudge is a social innovation developed based on the achievements of behavioral science. According to this approach, when citizens make decisions about their behavior, they often react irrationally, based on heuristic factors related to their lives. Thus, colle...
policy; policy tools; liberal state; individualistic values; policy effectiveness
THE ECOLOGICAL SILENCE: PRODUCING GREEN POLICIES OUTSIDE THE ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE
The development of the green policies of the European Union (EU) has established a framework in which national governments had to introduce environmental measures with serious social and economic consequences. The present article examines the relationship poli...
Bulgaria; environmental discourse; environmental awareness; green policies; pro-environmental behavior; protest mobilizations
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR AS A COMMUNITY RESILIENCE FACTOR: LESSONS FOR POLICY MAKING
Abstract: The article links community resilience – the resilience of the political community, with the process of public policy-making. In the argumentation, the study investigates the formation of community resilience and the importance of individual attitude...
resilience; pro-environmental behaviour; public policy; values; attitudes
THE ROLE OF NUDGE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN JOB SATISFACTION AND BURNOUT OF HEALTH WORKERS
This article is a literature review that examines the application of Nudge Theory in HRM to enhance job satisfaction and lessen burnout among healthcare professionals. Nudge HRM techniques are used to increase productivity and well-being by means of focused in...
Nudge practices; job satisfaction; burnout; health workers
AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT: A MEDIATOR BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
This study investigates pro-environmental behaviour through a personality-focused approach as well as the role of emotional engagement with environmental issues, specifically through affective commitment. Using structural equation modelling, data from an onlin...
Pro-environmental Behaviour; Personality traits; Affective Commitment; Eco-anxiety
ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ECOLOGICAL CERTIFICATION OF ORGANIZATIONS: INDIVIDUAL BENEFIT OR PUBLIC COMMITMENT OF ECONOMIC SECTOR MANAGERS
The text presents the results of a survey among 58 owners or managers of commercial companies that have sustainably implemented an environmental management system through their ISO 14001 certification. The study of management representatives is based on the un...
public policy; environment; pro-environmental behavior; standardization; ISO 14001
ECO-ANXIETY AND PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The present study highlights the growing need to understand ecoanxiety as a significant contemporary phenomenon associated with climate change and its impact on mental health. It aims to measure eco-anxiety levels among the Bulgarian population and to assess t...
eco-anxiety; HEAS-13; climate change anxiety; affective and behavioral symptoms
USAGE OF EXPRESSIONS IN SLOGANS FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: A CASE STUDY OF BULGARIAN LOCAL ELECTIONS IN 2023
Campaign posters and printer billboards are reviewed in this article with a focus on the slogan. The main argument is that the analysis and the function of an ad slogan can be applied to political campaign slogans. Certain similarities can be found in the purp...
cooperative principle; conversational implicature; flouting maxims; advertising language; campaign slogan; local elections
PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR
Values serve as guiding principles and are typically viewed as determinants of beliefs and behaviour. In the current study we explored the relationships between basic human values, ecological beliefs, and pro-environmental behavior. The present study is orient...
basic human values; ecological beliefs; solastalgia; pro-environmental behavior