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'.
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.