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==[[Report on corruption in healthcare: Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Ukraine]]==


'''[[:Category:Substantive|Substantive]] ambivalence: relationships vs use of relationships'''
<big>'''By Eleanor Evans, Alumna of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK'''</big>


1. ''Neither gift nor commodity: the instrumentality of sociability''
==[[Report on corruption in healthcare, March 2020 – April 2021: Hungary, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom]]==


: [[Economies of favours]] by Nicolette Makovicky and David Henig
<big>'''By James Bolton-Jones, Alumnus of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK'''</big>


: [[Managing favours in a global economy]] by Sheila M. Puffer and Daniel J. McCarthy
The [[Report on corruption in healthcare, March 2020 – April 2021: Hungary, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom|essay]] analyses the worsening of corruption in healthcare throughout the pandemic in Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, and the UK.


2. ''Neither gift nor payment: the sociability of instrumentality''
==[[Informality in Ukraine and beyond: one name, different flavours...with a cheer for the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality]]==


: [[Vernaculars of informality]] by Nicolette Makovicky and David Henig
<big>'''By Abel Polese, Dublin City University, Ireland'''</big>


: [[Interested vs Disinterested giving|'Interested' vs 'disinterested' giving: defining extortion, reciprocity and pure gifts in the connected worlds]] by Florence Weber
In the [[Informality in Ukraine and beyond: one name, different flavours...with a cheer for the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality|essay]], [[Buôn có bạn, bán có phường (Vietnam)|Abel Polese]] proposes a framework for classifying informal practices according to the context within which they are set: informal governance, shadow economy, informal payments and policy-making.


==Solidarity==
==[[Informality and the social orders of access: the cases of dirt book and kompromat]]==


'''[[:Category:Normative|Normative]] ambivalence of double standards: ‘us’ vs ‘them’'''
<big>'''By Giulio Benedetti, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL'''</big>


3. ''Conformity: the lock-in effect of social ties''
The [[Informality and the social orders of access: the cases of dirt book and kompromat|essay]] engages with Douglas North's idea of open- and limited-access societies and through a comparison of internal dynamics in elite groups developed through the [[dirt book]] and [[kompromat]] practices, challenges North's proposition.


: [[Group identity and the ambivalence of norms]] by Eric Gordy
==[[Informal Practices in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Moldova, Czech Republic and Greece]]==


: [[Organic solidarity and informality|Organic solidarity and informality – two irreconcilable concepts?]] by Christian Giordano
<big>'''By Michelle Angert, Alumnus, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London'''</big>


4. ''The unlocking power of non-conformity: cultural resistance vs political opposition''
This [[Informal Practices in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Moldova, Czech Republic and Greece|essay]] compares informal practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, the Czech Republic and Greece across a number of sectors, among them employment, healthcare and elections.


: [[The grey zones between cultural and political]] by Peter Zusi
==[[Informal Practices in the UK, Russia, Monaco, and the Republic of Cyprus]]==


: [[Ambiguities of accommodation|Ambiguities of accommodation, resistance and rebellion]] by Jan Kubik
<big>'''By Charlotte Solomou, Alumna, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London'''</big>


==Market==
This [[Informal Practices in the UK, Russia, Monaco, and the Republic of Cyprus|essay]] analyses similar informal practices in the UK, Russia, Monaco, and the Republic of Cyprus and highlights why it is problematic to treat corruption as an intra-national issue.


'''[[:Category:Functional|Functional]] ambivalence of informal strategies: supportive or subversive?'''
==Comparative analysis video interviews: Insights from East Africa and Eurasia==


5. ''The system made me do it: strategies of survival''
{{#ev:vimeo|274156897}}
 
'''Find more videos on informality [[Informality interviews|here]].'''
: [[The puzzles of informal economy|The puzzles of informal economy]] by Colin Marx
 
: [[How do tools of evasion become instruments of exploitation|How do tools of evasion become instruments of exploitation?]] by Scott Radnitz
 
6. ''Gaming the system: strategies of camouflage''
 
: [[Gaming the system]] by Philip Hanson
 
: [[Methods of researching part-time crime and illicit economic activity]] by Gerald Mars
 
==Domination==
 
'''[[:Category:Motivational|Motivational]] ambivalence: the blurring of the public and the private in the workings of informal power
 
7. ''Co- optation: recruiting clients and patrons''
 
: [[Carrots versus sticks in patron–client networks]] by Paul M. Heywood
 
: [[Do patron–client relationships affect complex societies|Do patron–client relationships affect complex societies?]] by Elena Semenova
 
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Latest revision as of 11:56, 2 August 2021

Report on corruption in healthcare: Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Ukraine

By Eleanor Evans, Alumna of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

Report on corruption in healthcare, March 2020 – April 2021: Hungary, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom

By James Bolton-Jones, Alumnus of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

The essay analyses the worsening of corruption in healthcare throughout the pandemic in Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, and the UK.

Informality in Ukraine and beyond: one name, different flavours...with a cheer for the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

By Abel Polese, Dublin City University, Ireland

In the essay, Abel Polese proposes a framework for classifying informal practices according to the context within which they are set: informal governance, shadow economy, informal payments and policy-making.

Informality and the social orders of access: the cases of dirt book and kompromat

By Giulio Benedetti, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL

The essay engages with Douglas North's idea of open- and limited-access societies and through a comparison of internal dynamics in elite groups developed through the dirt book and kompromat practices, challenges North's proposition.

Informal Practices in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Moldova, Czech Republic and Greece

By Michelle Angert, Alumnus, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

This essay compares informal practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, the Czech Republic and Greece across a number of sectors, among them employment, healthcare and elections.

Informal Practices in the UK, Russia, Monaco, and the Republic of Cyprus

By Charlotte Solomou, Alumna, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London

This essay analyses similar informal practices in the UK, Russia, Monaco, and the Republic of Cyprus and highlights why it is problematic to treat corruption as an intra-national issue.

Comparative analysis video interviews: Insights from East Africa and Eurasia

Find more videos on informality here.