Abstract

The link between policy and research in the social area, between policymakers and researchers has not been a subject of special studies and evaluations in the Bulgarian literature in the last years. It is still a "blank space" becoming much pronounced against the enlarging and deepening interest of academia outside Bulgaria1 . Hence, the main goal is to clarify the political context which made feasible the pension reform and thus opened broader "policy window" for researchers and the practical use of their professional expertise and research results.