Comparative Analyses

[[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: political domain, economic domain, corruption and 'infrapolitics'.

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.