Publications
Ignatova-Pfarr, Maria and Herbert Obinger. 2026. Wars and the formation of the welfare state in Bulgaria. In: Journal of European Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287261443153
Petersen, Klaus, Herbert Obinger, Michele Mioni and Maria Ignatova-Pfarr. 2026. Студената война и развитието на социалната политика в Източния и Западния блок. In: Исторически преглед 82 (3): pp. 78-119. https://doi.org/10.71069/IPR3.26.POMIP04
Petersen, Klaus, Herbert Obinger, Michele Mioni, Carina Schmitt and Maria Ignatova-Pfarr. 2026. „The Cold War-Welfare Nexus. An Introduction.” In The Cold War and Welfare State Development in Industrialized Countries, edited by Klaus Petersen, Herbert Obinger, Michele Mioni, and Carina Schmitt. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198990284.003.0001
Ignatova-Pfarr, Maria. 2026. "Bulgaria: Building a Worker-Peasant Welfare State under the Aegis of the Soviet Union." In The Cold War and Welfare State Development in Industrialized Countries, edited by Klaus Petersen, Herbert Obinger, Michele Mioni, and Carina Schmitt. Oxford University Press, pp. 305-330. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198990284.003.0011
Ignatova-Pfarr, Maria. 2025. Social Policy in Autocracies: Pension Policy in Bulgaria (1879-1989). Springer VS Wiesbaden.
Ignatova-Pfarr, Maria. 2025. "Social Protection for Farmers under Socialism: The Case of Bulgaria." In The Generosity of Social Policy in Social and Post-socialist States, edited by Andreas Heinrich, Monika Ewa Kamiska, Heiko Pleines and Tobias ten Brink. Global Dynamics of Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87733-9_3
Ignatova-Pfarr, Maria and Carina Schmitt. 2025. Communist Social Policy: Pension Policy in Bulgaria. In: Communist and Post-communist Studies 58(4): 165-183. https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2468598
Ignatova-Pfarr, Maria und Carina Schmitt. 2024. Kommunistische Sozialpolitik während des Kalten Krieges. Rentenpolitik in Bulgarien. In: Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, pp. 191-202.
