Four flavours of informality
By Abel Polese, Tallinn University
In the editorial entitled Informality and policy in the making: four flavours to explain the essence of informality in the special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies (2(4)/2018), 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'.
Comparison of dirt book and kompromat
By Giulio, 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 in dirt book and kompromat practices, challenges North's proposition.