<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/sociology/people/faculty/milan-zafirovski.html" dsn="people"><first_name>Milan</first_name><last_name>Zafirovski</last_name><prefixes/><pronouns/><post_nominals/><title-1>Professor</title-1><title-2>Fields: Sociological Theory, Economic Sociology, Social Stratification, Political Sociology/Economy</title-2><title-3/><title-4/><department>Sociology</department><type>Faculty</type><email>Milan.Zafirovski@unt.edu</email><phone/><image><img src="/sociology/images/sociology.unt.edu/files/images/faculty/photos/milan_0.jpg" alt="Milan Zafirovski"/></image><office>Sycamore 288G</office><address>Office Hours: W<span> 3-5 (Spring 26)</span></address><office-hours/><types><type>Faculty</type></types><departments><department>Sociology</department></departments><main-content>
Education

Ph.D., Florida International University, 1999
 
Research Interests

Dr. Milan Zafirovski currently researches social stratification and the sociology of economics. 
 
Selected Publications

Zafirovski, Milan. 2025. Theory of the Collective Unconscious and Social Coercion: Theoretical Extension and Empirical Application, Human Arenas. DOI: 10.1007/s42087-025-00530-w
Zafirovski, Milan. 2025. Does Democracy Affect Income Distribution? PreliminaryEvidence for OECD Countries, Politics &amp; Policy 53, 3, 1-28 https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70029
Zafirovski, Milan. 2025. Economic Inequality and Political Democracy Reconsidered: Trends, Links and Effects in 36 OECD Countries, 2006–2017, International Review of Sociology https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2025.2550941
Zafirovski, Milan. 2025. Pathologies of Creative Destruction? Its Dysfunctions from the History of Economic Theory, Social Thought and Contemporary Empirical Economics, The Journal of Evolutionary Economics, accepted for publication.
Zafirovski, Milan. 2025. Déjà Vu All Over Again? A Model and Indexes of Proto-Fascism for Western and Comparable Societies, Comparative European Politics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41295-025-00408-9
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