Social policies shape public opinions on immigration. A study by Alina Vrânceanu and Bilyana Petrova shows that in Western Europe, generous welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives more favourably inclined toward immigrants. Cutting benefits risks exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment. These research findings have important implications for social conflict in modern capitalist democracies
What explains democratic skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe? Kiran Auerbach and Bilyana Petrova show that post-communist citizens’ low support for democracy is linked to dissatisfaction with the way democracy is practiced in their countries
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas Tech University
Bilyana's research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and political behaviour, with an emphasis on economic inequality, economic redistribution, welfare state attitudes, and support for democracy.
She received her PhD in political acience from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018.
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