Comparative Analyses
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
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