Between politics and administration : compliance with EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe
Toshkov, D.D.
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Toshkov, D. D. (2009, March 25). Between politics and administration : compliance with EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe. Between politics and administration: Compliance with EU law in Central and Eastern Europe. Retrieved from
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Dimiter D. Toshkov was born on 18 August 1978 in General Toshevo (Bulgaria). He completed secondary school at the English Language School ‘Geo Milev’ in Bourgas. He studied public administration at Sofia University ‘St. Climent Ohridski’ where he won twice the Faculty of Philosophy Award for high academic achievements. In 2001 and 2002 he worked as a junior expert at the Bulgarian Institute of Public Administration and European Integration, and at the Public Relations Directorate of the Council of Ministers. In 2002 he was awarded the Leids Universiteits Fonds scholarship to pursue a Masters degree at Leiden University. He completed the Masters program in European Public Administration in 2003. His thesis analyzed the changes in the organizational structure of the executive in Bulgaria. From April 2004 to April 2008 he was a PhD fellow at Leiden University. He received post-graduate training at the Netherlands Institute of Government, the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methodology at the University of Michigan, the CONNEX Summer School ‘New Modes of Governance’
at the European University Institute, Florence and the Summer School on Analytical Politics at the University of Zürich. During this time he taught courses on European Union Governance and Research Design at Leiden University. His research has been published in European Union Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of European Social Policy, and West European Politics. In 2008, his article ‘In search of the worlds of compliance: culture and transposition performance in the European Union’
won second prize at the Europa-Award of the Montesquieu Institute for ‘best scientific article written by a junior academic’. Between May 2008 and April 2009 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University and taught the course ‘Europeanization of Public Policies’ at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From the spring of 2009 Dimiter Toshkov will hold a position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration at Leiden University.
