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Title

Informality in Eastern Europe : structures, political cultures and social practices / Christian Giordano & Nicolas Hayoz (Eds).

Publication

• Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Hayoz, Nicolas
• Giordano, Christian

Description

490 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Interdisciplinary studies on Central and Eastern Europe, 1661-1349 ; Vol. 11

Uniform Title

Interdisciplinary studies on Central and Eastern Europe ; Vol. 11.

Subject

• Since 1989
• Politische Kultur
• Politisches System
• Post-communism > Europe, Eastern
• Political culture > Europe, Eastern
• Social change > Europe, Eastern
• Informal sector (Economics) > Europe, Eastern
• Culture politique > Europe de l'Est
• Informal sector (Economics)
• Political culture
• Political science
• Post-communism
• Social change
• Social history
• Osteuropa
• Europe, Eastern > Social conditions > 1989-
• Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-
• Eastern Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : exploring informality in Eastern Europe through different disciplines / Christian Giordano and Nicolas Hayoz -- The social organization of informality : the rationale underlying personalized relationships and coalitions / Christian Giordano -- Observations on the changing meanings of informality / Nicolas Hayoz -- Aspects of "informality" with particular focus on South-Eastern Europe / Anton Sterbling -- Visible and invisible informalities and institutional transformation in the transition countries of Georgia, Romania, and Uzbekistan / Kristof Van Assche, Anastasiya Shtaltovna and Anna-Katharina Hornidge -- Shadow economy, corruption and informal political exchanges : the Greek case in a comparative perspective / Maximos Aligisakis -- Analysing informality : a case-study based concept applied to the Czech Republic / Nicole Gallina -- The synchronization of communist legacy in postcommunist politics and labour : the case of Poland / Veronika Pasynkova --^
• Institutionalization of market order and reinstitutionalization of vruzki (connections) in Bulgaria / Tanya Chavdrarova -- The everyday culture of informality in post-socialist Bulgarian politics / Katerina Gehl and Klaus Roth -- Abuse of office, informal networks, "moral accountability" : political corruption in Bulgaria / Sonja Schüler -- Informality in Albania : the case of rural land tenure and transactions / Edvin Zhllima and Drini Imami -- Contested statebuilding in Kosovo : the nature and characteristics of Serbian parallel structures / Adem Beha -- "They are with the others" : from gossip to stigmatization, Romanian civil society through an informal perspective / Fanny Sbaraglia -- Social representations of informality : the Roma case / Francois Ruegg -- Informal and formal institutions in the former Soviet Union / Jonathan Wheatley -- The dominance of informal politics on the eve of the electoral year 2011-2012 / Galina Michaleva --^
• Corruption networks in the sphere of higher education : an example from Russian mass universities / Elvira Leontyeva -- How unwritten rules can influence human resource management in Russia / Elena Denisova-Schmidt -- Informality as a "weapon of the weak" : public representation of Tatar youth movements in Kazan, Russia / Andrea Friedli -- The ambiguity and functions of informality : some notes from the Odessa-Chisinau route / Abel Polese -- Informality in a neopatrimonial state : Azerbaijan / Rail Safiyev -- Formalization of the informal : statebuilding in Armenia / Alexander Iskandaryan -- Informality and the question of modernization : the case of Georgia / Giga Zedania.

ISBN

• 9783034314558
• 3034314558

OCLC

• 863100562
• SCSB-11991481

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library