Related Publications
This page contains information on recent publications related to this project, authored by the contributors to the Encyclopaedia.
Publications on informal economy
2022
Nikolaos Olma (author of Taksovanie and stacze kolejkowi) published Under the Auspices of the State: Examining the Endurance of Tashkent’s Informal Taxis in Geoforum 136: 302-311.
2021
Abel Polese edited Labour mobility and precariousness: why informality ends up replacing and supplementing the state for the invisible and the vulnerable with Palgrave.
2020
Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman and Ružica Šimić Banović, author of the Volume 2 of The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, have published an article entitled The Role of (In)Formal Governance and Culture in a National Competition System: A Case of a Post-Socialist Economy in the journal World Competition.
Drini Imami, Klodjan Rana and Abel Polese have published an article entitled Informality and access to finance during socialism and transition – the case of the rotating savings and credit schemes in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics (30).
Andrew Charman has co-authored a book entitled Township Economy: People, Spaces and Practices with HSRC Press.
2019
Jeremy Morris has published on The Informal Economy and Post-Socialism: Imbricated Perspectives on Labor, the State, and Social Embeddedness in the journal Demokratizatsiya 27(1).
2018
Simo Mannila and Galina Eremicheva have published Some risks of informal business in Russia – a case study from Saint Petersburg in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy vol. 38, issue 9/10, pp. 823-836.
Publications on corruption
2021
Elena Denisova-Schmidt co-authored an article on Combining experimental evidence with machine learning to assess anti-corruption educational campaigns among Russian university students in the journal Empirical Economics.
Jacopo Costa published The nexus between corruption and money laundering: an analysis of the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru. Basel: Basel Institute on Governance.
Cosimo Stahl published Sexual corruption in Malawi. Basel: Basel Institute on Governance.
2020
Drini Imami co-authored an article on the Effects of subject pool culture and institutional environment on corruption: Experimental evidence from Albania in Economic Systems 44(2).
Claudia Baez Camargo et al. published an article entitled Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens in African Studies 79(2).
Ina Kubbe co-authored chapters in edited volumes (2020): on Corruption and Populism in Israel - from a clientelistic point of view, in Mendilow and Phelippeau’s Populism and Corruption: The other side of the Coin; on Corruption and populism: the linkage: Concepts and Approaches, in Mungiu-Pippidi and Heywood’s The State of the Art in Corruption Research and Agenda for the Future; and on Corruption, democracy and (non-development): The role of the European Union, in Crawford and Abdulai’s Handbook on Democracy and Development (all Edward Elgar).
Elena Denisova-Schmidt has edited a volume entitled Corruption in higher education: global challenges and responses (Brill) with contributions from Elena, Abel Polese and Jeremy Morris, among others. The volume has received positive first reviews. She also wrote a blog for VoxUkraine entitled Can Online Videos Change The Acceptance Of Corruption Among Ukrainian Students?.
2019
Andrew Sidman published a book entitled Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era with Columbia University Press.
David Jancsics has published an article, entitled Corruption as Resource Transfer: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis, available in open access in the journal Public Administration Review.
2018
The research project Informal Governance and Corruption - Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms has published its findings. The project is led by Dr Claudia Baez Camargo from Basel Institute on Governance, Professor Alena Ledeneva from University College London and Dr Scott Newton from SOAS, University of London and funded by the British Academy and UK Department for International development (BA/DFID Anti-Corruption Evidence Partnership).
Among the outcomes of the project were four video interviews with participating scholars of informality.
Elena Denisova-Schmidt, Research Associate at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland and Research Fellow at the Boston College Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), USA, and Lena Nicolas-Kryzhko have published an article with the title Teaching A Course on Corruption and Informality in Russia: An International Experience in the journal Mir Rossii 27(4).
Elena has also edited a special issue entitled Cheating and Plagiarism in Higher Education in the journal Higher Education in Russia and Beyond 3(17).
2017
Grant Walton published Anti-corruption and its discontents: local, national and international perspectives on corruption in Papua New Guinea with Routledge.
Publications on organised crime
2020
Grant Walton co-authored a piece entitled Lost in Space? The spatial and scalar dimension of organised crime in the Pacific in the journal Asia-Pacific Viewpoint.
Fausto Carbajal Glass has published a chapter in the volume lllegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World, edited by Yuliya Zabyelina (CUNY) and Daan van Uhm (Utrecht University).
Publications on informal politics
2021
Claudia Baez Camargo et al. published The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda. Trends in organised crime.
2020
Tom Goodfellow, contributing author to the Volume 2 of The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, has published Political Informality: Deals, Trust Networks, and the Negotiation of Value in the Urban Realm in the The Journal of Development Studies 56 (2): 278-294.
Abel Polese edited Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Routledge
2019
Abel Polese and others edited Governance Beyond The Law: The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal. London: Palgrave
Publications on informal Networks
2022
Ledeneva, Minbaeva, and Horak co-authored Explaining the persistence of informal institutions: The role of informal networks in Academy of Management Review.
Sven Horak co-authored Informal networks, informal institutions, and social exclusion in the workplace: Insights from subsidiaries of MNCs in Korea in the Journal of Business Ethics and Informal Network Context: Deepening the Knowledge and Extending the Boundaries of Social Network Research in International Human Resource Management in The International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Publications on informal practices and migration
2021
Ignacio Fradejas Garcia, Abel Polese, and Fazila Bhimji have edited and contributed articles to the Special Issue titled Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe for Migration Letters 18 (2). The publications have been presented in two recent blog posts (Informal Automobilities and Informality and Transnational (Im)Mobilities in Europe – Introduction) of NCCR on the Move.
Nikolaos Olma has published a chapter Driving in the shadows. Rural–urban labour migrants as informal taxi drivers in post-socialist Tashkent in Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space (Routledge) edited by Rano Turaeva and Rustamjon Urinboyev.
Publications on informal practices making up professional circles and the state
2020
Leyla Sayfutdinova co-authored an article on Informal Practices in the Making of Professionals: The Case of Engineers in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan appearing in Work, Employment and Society in October 2020.
Sedlenieks, Klāvs has written on Phantom Rebellion: Performing the State in a Montenegrin Village and Beyond in Suomen Antropologi 45(1) and on Liquid Crystal and the A1: Densities of State from the Perspective of a Montenegrin Village in Social Anthropology 28(2).
Publications on informal entrepreneurship and undeclared work
2022
Horacio Espinosa co-authored a paper on the religiosity of manteros in an article entitled La religiosidad mantera. Sufismo y comercio informal en Barcelona in Migraciones: 1-18.
Shalini Grover, author of the Trailing spouses published an article: Placement Agencies for Care-Domestic Labour: Everyday Mediation, Civilizing Missions, Regimes of Punishment and Training in Globalized India.
2018
Colin C. Williams and Slavko Beredi have published an article entitled An institutional theory of informal entrepreneurship: Some lessons from FYR Macedonia in the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 23(3).
Colin has also published a technical report with the title Glossary of Terms: European Platform Tackling Undeclared Work available on the Bepress platform.
Publications on transition economies
2021
Drini Imami, Endrit Lami, Geoffrey Pugh, and Iraj Hashi have published Fiscal performance and elections in the context of a transition economy on Economic Systems.
Publications on informality from a theoretical perspective
2022
Sven Horak edited Informal Networks in International Business by Emerald Publishing Limited.
2021
Abel Polese published Informality as “the act of bypassing the state”. Mapping the possible contributions of Eurasian scholars to global debates on governance, development and, of course, informality. Eurasian Geography and Economics.
2019
Prof Ledeneva participated in the third Newsletter of the Project INFORM. You can access it from here.
2018
Abel Polese has published an 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).
Publications on ethnicity and gender
2022
Ina Kubbe, author of Combina and Vitamin B published the book Norms, Gender and Corruption: Understanding the Nexus.
2021
Julia Carter has published Traditional inequalities and inequalities of tradition: Gender, weddings and whiteness for Sociological Research Online.
2019
Peter Berta published a monograph Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma (University of Toronto), and a book series The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts (Rutgers University) and a forthcoming edited volume Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change (Rutgers University).
Publications of anthropology
2022
Pereira Couttolenc, E. 2022. A social discursive analysis of enchantment effects on travel blogs. Annales de l'Université de Craïova, n° XXV/1, 112-134, janvier 2022.
2021
Matijevic, P. 2021. Searching for the plot: narrative self-making and urban agriculture during the economic crisis in Slovenia. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10248-4
2020
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, contributing author to the Volume 2 of The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, has published Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist: From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán Tucson: University of Arizona. He also wrote The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People, In Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature. Lanham: Lexington Books an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.
2019
Abel Polese and others published “Coping Strategies of Cancer Patients in Ukraine”, International Journal of Health Planning and Management 34(4): 1423-1438. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2802 and “Negotiating public space informally: language politics and language use practices in Odessa high schools” Space and Culture 22(3): 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/
2018
Thoughts on the concept of political subjectivity and political intentionality in anthropology by the late Professor Christian Giordano appear in the latest issues of Anthropology: Journal for the Sociocultural Anthropology 5/2018 and Lietuvos Etnologija: Socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos 18(27).
Database on the Post-Soviet region
Discuss Data is a community-driven platform for archiving, sharing and discussing research data on the post-Soviet region. Data on corruption and informality is among the core topics of Discuss Data. The first data sets, for example on Corruption and Informal Practices among Businesses in Ukraine by Elena Denisova-Schmidt, or Russian Youth and Corruption by Eduard Klein, author of the Volume 2 of The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, have already been published and are accessible for secondary research. More data sets are currently in the curation and publication process and will be published soon.
Discuss Data is looking for new data set submissions; for more information please see the call for data. Also, Discuss Data offers a limited amount of data preparation grants to support the preparation of open access data collections for publication on the platform.
For regular updates you can subscribe to the Discuss Data Newsletter and/or follow the platform's Twitter account.
Website on Corruption in Government Contracting
Dr Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett from University of Sussex and Dr Mihály Fazekas from the Central European University have launched a new website for the Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting research project, funded by the DFID Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme. The website has information about the project and team, working papers, policy briefs, datasets, links to software, and regular blog posts about events and activities. To keep up to date with the activities of the project, following their project Twitter account @corruption_red.
Publications on Russia
2021
Elena Bogdanova published Complaints to the Authorities in Russia. A Trap Between Tradition and Legal Modernization with Routledge.
Scott Radnitz published Revealing Schemes. The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region with Oxford University Press.
Svetlana Barsukova and Elena Denisova-Schmidt published Double Standards as Modus Operandi: Mixing Business and Politics in Russia for Europe-Asia Studies
2020
Elizabeth Teague, co-editor of Vol 1 and Vol 2 has written an open-access article on Russia’s Constitutional Reforms of 2020 in Russian Politics 5(3).
2017
Simo Mannila and Galina Eremicheva have published Risk-taking and business entry in Russia – Blurred borders of life course in the Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology XX, 2, 142-176.
Publications on Central Asia
2021
Arzuu Sheranova and Philipp Lottholz have published Governing, but not Producing Security? Internationalised Community Security Practices in Kyrgyzstan for the International Quarterly for Asian Studies.
2020
Nikolaos Olma has published Monotonous motorscapes: Uzbekistan’s car industry and the consolidation of a post-socialist shortage economy for the Central Asian Survey.
2019
Maral Muratbekova-Touron and Tolganay Umbetalijeva have published an article on the Human resource management patterns of (anti)corruption mechanisms within informal networks in Kazakhstan for the Professional Ethics Journal.
2018
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Abel Polese, Mans Svensson, Laura Adams and Tanel Kerikmäe have published an article entitled 'Political vs Everyday Forms of Governance in Uzbekistan: the Illegal, Immoral and Illegitimate' in the journal Studies of Transition States and Societies 10(1): 50-64. The article is available here.
Publications on Africa
2022
Daniel Jordan Smith published a new book this year Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria (Princeton University Press, 2022).
2021
Jacopo Costa published Social network analysis applied to illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia. Basel: Basel Institute on Governance. Accessible here. He also published Bringing intelligence and social network analysis together to fight illegal wildlife trade: lessons for policymakers and practitioners. (ISSN 2624-9669) Basel: Basel Institute on Governance. accessible here.
2020
Claudia Baez Camargo et al. published A worm’s-eye view of wildlife trafficking in Uganda – the path of least resistance. ISSN: 2624-9650. Basel: Basel Institute on Governance.
Claudia Baez Camargo et al. published Curbing wildlife trafficking in Uganda: lessons for practitioners. Policy brief. ISSN 2624-9669. Basel: Basel Institute on Governance The publication can be accessed here
Evans Osabuohien edited a Handbook on Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa (Palgrave) and a forthcoming Handbook of Research on Institution Development for Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Growth in Africa (IGI Global). He has also recently completed Part 1 and Part 2 of Special Issue for African Journal of Economic and Management Studies (Emerald) on Labour Issues in Africa's Agricultural and Rural Transformation.
Publications on the MENA region
2021
Ina Kubbe (Tel Aviv University) and Aiysha Varraich (Quality of Government Institute, Gothenburg) have edited a volume entitled Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa published by Routledge.
Publications on Europe
2021
Stanislav Shekshnia and Veronika Zagieva edited Leading a Board. Chairs’ Practices Across Europe] for SpringerLink.
The book has a chapter of Elena Denisova-Schmidt and Peter Firnhaber Smooth Operator: The Chair as the Drive Belt of the German Governance System and one with Hande Yaşargil Turkey: Between Traditional and Modern Leadership.
Publications on the Western Balkans
2019
Ružica Šimić Banović has published an open access article entitled Uhljeb – a post-socialist homo croaticus: a personification of the economy of favours in Croatia? in the journal Post-Communist Economies.
The INFORM project has published its set of policy recommendations in a book entitled Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans: Between formal institutions and informal practices (Peter Lang). The volume, edited by Eric Gordy and Adnan Efendic, examines how formal EU integration policy can best address both damaging and constructive aspects of informal practices in the Western Balkans region.
A theory of Trump Kompromat
The New Yorker has published an article by Adam Davidson on the Russian informal practice of kompromat, with Alena Ledeneva giving opinion on the Russian sistema.
Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management
Character assassination is a timeless, cross-cultural phenomenon that reveals itself in a variety of forms and methods typical for every cultural, political, and technological epoch. This Handbook provides the first introduction to and a comprehensive overview of the key themes involved in the study of character assassination and reputation management. Divided into five substantive sections, the editors and contributors to this volume have gathered cases and scientific insights to track many common characteristics of character assassination, including the motives, strategies, and methods of character assassination practices throughout history.
Edited by: Sergei A. Samoilenko, Martijn Icks, Jennifer Keohane, and Eric Shiraev
Contributors: Neofytos Aspriadis; William Benoit; Olga Bogolyubova; Simon Burrows; Josh Compton; Timothy Coombs; Scott Dixon; Ekaterina Egorova; Elizaveta Egorova; Stephen Farnsworth; Chris Gilbert; Edwina Hagen; Sherry Holladay; Martijn Icks; Chris Ingraham; Jennifer Keohane; Martina Klicperova-Baker; Kyriakos Kolovos; Florian Krüpe; Marlene Laruelle; S. Robert Lichter; Olga Makhovskaya; Maureen Minielli; Niki Papagianni; Joshua Reeves; Alamira Samah Saleh; Athanassios N. Samaras; Sergei A. Samoilenko; Casey Schmitt; Jens Seiffert-Brockmann; Eric Shiraev; Greg Simons; Emmanοuil Takas; Anita Traninger; and Stijn van Kessel
The handbook’s promotion has been officially launched on 13 April 2018 at the Institute of World Politics in Washington DC.
See the CARP Research Lab's blog for more information on character assassination.
Upcoming Special Issue Project “Transnationalizing Clientelism”
Transnationalizing Clientelism
Edited by Tina Hilgers, Jana Hönke and Markus-Michael Müller
Introduction
This special issue project on “Transnationalizing Clientelism” addresses two significant gaps in the literature on clientelism: one regarding levels of analysis and the other regarding normative assumptions. Since the post World War II years, clientelism has been a key tool for analyzing political, economic, and social arrangements at local and national levels in the Global South, where state presence is not consolidated across national territories. Yet, despite the impact of transnational influences on the Global South – from the colonial to the present era – the role of transnational actors and their resources in clientelism has not been examined. At the same time, the recent literature overwhelmingly assumes clientelism to have a negative impact on affected actors and institutions, despite traditional theoretical positions and contemporary ethnographic evidence of the contrary. We argue that clientelism facilitates the entry of transnational initiatives and organizations to areas of limited statehood; that transnational actors influence the quality of clientelistic relations; and, as a result, that the effect of such relations is much more complex than negative assumptions acknowledge. For decades, clientelism has been a central topic in debates on political development and governance in areas of limited statehood, that is, in contexts where governments are unwilling or unable to exercise authority throughout their territory. An earlier generation of scholars addressed patron-clientelism as a “lop-sided friendship” (Pitt-Rivers 1954: 140) between actors with unequal resource endowments, analyzing it as a neutral, if not positive, form of resource allocation; an important functional equivalent to absent or inefficient state institutions; and an effective mechanism for creating social cohesion (e.g. Schmidt et al. 1977). The contemporary literature, however, considers clientelism as a problem for democratic consolidation, citizenship, the effectiveness of state institutions, and the provision of collective goods, and as an indicator of the persistence of authoritarian political structures (e.g. van de Walle 2003, Kitschelt and Wilkinson 2007, Stokes et al. 2013). This literature neglects previous insights regarding the functional equivalence of clientelistic practices and structures in areas of limited statehood.
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At the same time, a shortcoming of both traditional and contemporary debates on the topic consists of the exclusive focus on national/subnational levels of analysis, neglecting the transnational. Thus, the role of external actors, the availability of external resources (money, knowledge, discourses) and transnational power relations in shaping, (re)producing and transforming clientelistic relations in areas of limited statehood has been neglected. Traditional studies are marked by a strong “methodological nationalism” despite the fact that the contexts (e.g. Java for Geertz 1960 and Mexico for Wolf 1956) had a deep historical experience with transnational forms of political relations due to their colonial past. From the 1980s onwards, following the rise of “transitology thinking” in political science, clientelism became increasingly analytically entangled with questions of the quality of democracy, elections, and citizenship (e.g. Fox 1994, Stokes 2005), again focusing on domestic actors and institutions. Today, despite a multitude of new studies on the phenomenon (e.g. Szwarcberg 2012, Stokes et al. 2013, Montambeault 2015, Hirvi and Whitfield 2015, Holland 2017, Hilgers and Macdonald 2017, Ledeneva 2018), the links between clientelism and the contemporary context of transnational flows of technology, knowledge, finance, and power have still not been made explicit.
However, most places that have been studied by scholars working on clientelism are deeply integrated in transnational relations of all kinds, including economic and migration processes, NGOs, development projects, security cooperation, norm diffusion, traveling “governance experts” (Dezalay and Garth 2011), and so forth. Indeed, the analytical neglect of clientelism’s transnational dimension is striking, considering that approximately 80% of the world’s population lives in areas of limited statehood (Risse 2011), where states engage in fluid co-governance with domestic and foreign actors. As a result, important questions of whether and how local clientelistic relations shape external actors, as well as whether and how clientelism extends into transnational governance structures, have not been addressed (see Hönke and Müller 2018; for exceptions see Cooley and Heathershaw 2017, Hönke 2018).
If most territories across the Global South are marked by uncertain sovereignty, several questions arise that call for reassessing conventional perspectives on clientelism:
- How do transnational actors wanting to establish themselves in areas of limited statehood manage to gain access through clientelistic relations?
- Once they are established, what impact do they have on clientelistic practices?
- How do clientelistic practices feed back into the workings of transnational governance and how are actors and institutions that set and implement transnational governance agendas themselves shaped by clientelistic practices?
The contributors to this project address these questions, offering fresh perspectives on the role of transnational forces in shaping and being shaped by clientelistic practices. Overall, the contributions demonstrate that the success of external actors – be they legal enterprises, extractive industries, security operations, and NGOs, or criminal organizations – in breaking into the markets, territories and governance structures of the Global South depends on clientelism. Moreover, they highlight that clientelism feeds into the workings and dynamics of transnational actors, for instance through the incorporation or creation of the informal networks of local partners. Thus, in showcasing the transnational dimension of clientelism in our contemporary world, the special issue expands the literature on clientelism to account for both the impact of transnational actors on the transformation of the “local” on the one hand, and the “studying up” of clientelism as a force determining transnational relations in areas of limited statehood, on the other.
In order to unpack these connections, the contributions to this project draw on the findings of empirical research from cases around the globe and engage with the analytical framework outlined in the guest editors’ introduction (Hilgers, Hönke, and Müller, based on this proposal). They zoom in on key issue areas that are paradigmatic examples of deep and often co-constitutive interrelations between clientelism and transnational forces in our contemporary world. The cases range from security and military practices in Latin America and Africa; to transnational money laundering circuits in Central Asia and the tolerance of foreign corruption by Western banks; to transnational NGOs working in Russia; and the activities of transnational extractive industries in the Americas.
Together, the case studies generate a new research program. They enrich our understanding of the connections between transnational forces and clientelism through a variety of theoretical perspectives, analytical choices, and methodological approaches. This variety provides the elements for a comparative reading permitting us to observe commonalties and differences in the entanglements between clientelism and transnationalism depending on the specific sites in which these unfold as well as on the actors and practices involved. The resulting insights produce a research program for analyzing and explaining the dynamic causes and consequences of transnational clientelism that offers important insights to the constitutive role of clientelism in shaping contemporary transnational governance.
The special issue project builds on a set of papers presented at an international authors’ workshop at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” at Freie Universität Berlin in June 2015; as well as on two roundtables at the Latin American Studies Association’s annual meetings in 2016 (New York) and 2017 (Lima). To increase the coherence of the special issue, each contribution addresses four questions:
- What is the connection between transnational forces and clientelism in the context of your article?
- How does your argument contribute to the study of the entanglements between clientelism and transnational relations?
- How does your contribution approach the connection between clientelism and transnationalism from a novel theoretical and/or methodological perspective?
- What is relevant/specific about your context for addressing these questions?
References
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Cooley, A. and Heathershaw J. (2017) Dictators without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia. Yale University Press.
Dezalay, Y. and Garth, B. G. (2011) “Hegemonic Battles, Professional Rivalries, and the International Division of Labor in the Market for the Import and Export of State- Governing Expertise.” International Political Sociology, 5(3): 276–293.
Fox, J. (1994) “The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Mexico.” World Politics, 46(2): 151-184.
Geertz, C. (1960) “The Javanese Kijaji: The Changing Role of a Cultural Broker.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2(2): 228– 249.
Hilgers, T. and Macdonald, L. (eds.) (2017) Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelistic Networks. Cambridge University Press.
Hirvi, M. and Whitfield, L. (2015) “Public‐Service Provision in Clientelist Political Settlements: Lessons from Ghana’s Urban Water Sector.” Development Policy Review 33(2): 135–58.
Holland, A. C. (2014). Forbearance as Redistribution: Enforcement Politics in Urban Latin America. Harvard University.
Hönke, J. (2018) “Transnational Clientelism, Global (Resource) Governance and the Disciplining of Dissent.” International Political Sociology.
Hönke, J., and Müller, M.M. (2018) “Brokerage, Intermediation, Translation,” in Risse, Thomas, Tanja A. Börzel and Anke Draude (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood. Oxford University Press.
Kitschelt, H. and Wilkinson, S.I. (eds.) (2007) Patrons, clients and policies: Patterns of democratic accountability and political competition. Cambridge University Press.
Ledeneva, A. (2018) The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality (2 vols.). UCL Press.
Montambeault, F. (2015) The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America. Stanford University Press.
Pitt-Rivers, J. (1954) The People of the Sierra. University of Chicago Press.
Risse, T. (ed.) (2011) Governance Without a State? Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood. Columbia University Press.
Schmidt, S. et al. (eds.), Friends, Followers and Factions: A Reader in Political Clientelism. University of California Press.
Szwarcberg, M. (2012) “Uncertainty, Political Clientelism, and Voter Turnout in Latin America: Why Parties Conduct Rallies in Argentina.” Comparative Politics, 45(1): 88– 106.
Stokes, S. C. (2005) “Perverse Accountability: A Formal Model of Machine Politics with Evidence from Argentina.” American Political Science Review, 99(3): 315-325.
Stokes, S. C., T. Dunning, M. Nazareno and V.Brusco (2013) Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics. Cambridge University Press.
van de Walle, N. (2003) “Presidentialism and Clientelism in Africa’s Emerging Party Systems.”
The Journal of Modern African Studies 41(2): 297–321.
Wolf, E. R. (1956) “Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico.” American Anthropologist, 58(6): 1067– 1078.
Career updates
2021
Ignacio Fradejas Garcia has passed his viva and graduated with a thesis on Mobility, Informality and Networks in Transnational Social Fields at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Dhikru Adewale Yagboyaju, author of the Volume 1 of The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, was pronounced a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Long Zhang has passed his viva at the University of Hong Kong as of May 25 and will start to work as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Nankai University in Tianjin City with the new academic year.
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, contributing author to the Volume 2 of The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, won the Distinguished Author Award in recognition of exceptional academic and scholarly contributions to the advancement of Latinos and Latinos in higher education, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, Virtual Event, March 4.
2020
Peter Berta has been nominated Honorary Research Associate at SSEES.
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez won the Franz Boas Award for Distinguished Service to the American Anthropology Association. This honor is given to “members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have well served the anthropological profession.” August 11.