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Cornell University ILR School DigitalCommons@ILR Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies CAHRS Working Paper Series (CAHRS) November 1998 Multi-Level Bargaining Cartels in Periods of Transitions: On the Ex ample of Bulgaria Elena A. Iankova Cornell University Follow this and additional works at : /cahrswp Thank you for downloading an article from DigitalCommons@ILR . Support this valuable resource today ! This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) at DigitalCommons@ILR . It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHRS Working Paper Series by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@ILR . For more information, please contact hlmdigital@. Multi-Level Bargaining Cartels in Periods of Transitions: On the Ex ample of Bulgaria Abstract This paper examines the levels of social dialogues and the specific links among them that have emerged during the post-communist transformations of central and eastern Europe. Using evidence from Bulgaria, the author adds to the debate over the type of worldwide change in bargaining structures, with the argument that currently the post-communist region is experiencing neither decentralization nor centralization of bargaining structures. Instead, surviving state socialist structures designed to resolve conflicts on a hierarchical basis and the new, transformation-driven centralization of power have combined with decentralizing and democratizing efforts to create specific multi-level bargaining cartels. In such cartels, the scope of bargaining is both more extensive and intensive. It involves the interplay of participants and issu