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• Vagonchiki (Russia)
  ...ent, the Federal Assembly. As a term relating to a small detail of the law-making process, the term ''vagonchik'' is not used widely. However, the practice i ...ing the use of ''vagonchiki'' requires a basic overview of the Russian law-making process. All draft federal-level legislation in Russia must pass through th
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• Jinmyaku (Japan)
  .... Whereas the Japanese are known to be rather reserved towards people they do not know, an introduction by a third person through ''jinmyaku'' can open d ...finity to others on the basis of shared traits and interests; the Japanese do so on the basis of shared affiliations, obligations or allegiance. Accordin
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• Budženje (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia)
  ...nctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Survival| Survival]] – [[:Category: Informal entrep ...cle]] – [[:Category: Property| Property]] – [[:Category: Making do| Making do]] – [[:Category: Improvisation| Improvisation]] – [[:Category: Cobbling
  12 KB (1,750 words) - 11:03, 11 May 2020
• Jangmadang (North Korea)
  ...nctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Survival| Survival]] – [[:Category: Informal entrep [[Category: System made me do it]]
  10 KB (1,534 words) - 13:43, 22 May 2019
• Mzungu price (Kenya)
  ...gory: Market| Market]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Informal entrepreneurship| Informal entrepreneurship] [[Category: System made me do it]]
  12 KB (1,576 words) - 13:37, 18 June 2020
• Jugaad (India)
  ...nctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Survival| Survival]] – [[:Category: Informal entrep ...egory: Problem-solving| Problem-solving]] – [[:Category: Making do| Making do]] – [[:Category: Improvisation| Improvisation]] – [[:Category: Bricolag
  15 KB (2,046 words) - 13:17, 17 May 2019
• Nokofio (Ghana)
  ...casually reminding that ʻit’s Saturdayʼ or that ʻChristmas is comingʼ, and making inviting hand gestures. ...r electoral choices. Lindberg’s (2010) recent study shows that politicians do not monitor whether gifts translate to votes and similarly, Nugent (2007) s
  9 KB (1,376 words) - 15:07, 10 July 2019
• Newsletter 3 INFORM
  ...l influences, social practices can be seen as essentially improvisational, making room for agency – the respect for or avoidance of formal rules, following
  4 KB (616 words) - 22:48, 11 June 2025
• Palyonka (Russia)
  ...ctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Resistance| Resistance]] [[Category: System made me do it]]
  13 KB (1,653 words) - 18:26, 20 December 2020
• Bin Diwar, Fazaee (Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
  ...on =Ghost employees; those who receive salaries from the public budget but do not perform the public service ...unds recipients in total, in a population of around 39 million population, making this the highest proportion in the world) (Alhasoon 2017). Official sources
  9 KB (1,184 words) - 16:23, 29 September 2019
• Skipping (England)
  ...nctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Survival| Survival]] – [[:Category: Informal welfar [[Category: System made me do it]]
  8 KB (1,222 words) - 20:33, 17 May 2019
• Obshchak (Russia)
  ...nctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Survival| Survival]] – [[:Category: Informal welfar [[Category: System made me do it]]
  12 KB (1,793 words) - 15:55, 10 September 2019
• Shuahaoping (China)
  ...arts of web pages, especially approval buttons in social media as a way of making businesses seem popular’ (Macmillan Dictionary, n.d.). In both practices, ...reviewsʼ, in which authentic customers are offered financial incentives to do ''shuahaoping''. The seller encloses a card in the goods package with a mes
  12 KB (1,639 words) - 14:12, 6 September 2019
• Stoyanshik (Georgia)
  ...nctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Survival| Survival]] – [[:Category: Informal entrep [[Category: System made me do it]]
  14 KB (2,022 words) - 14:24, 23 May 2019
• Khamstvo (USSR, Russia)
  ...mptively mobilized all the diminutive suffixes, because these people could do something big, good, important for me, like give me two hundred grams of sa ...cket payments helped further improve the provider-patient relationship, by making emotional support part of the deal. Thus, ''khamstvo'' captured a complex e
  13 KB (1,860 words) - 17:22, 17 February 2025
• Uklonenie ot alimentov (Russia)
  ...Code has a provision for parents to notarise their private agreement, thus making it official and enforceable, but in practice less than 1 per cent of couple ...alimony payments (Ivanova 2018). There are exceptions, of course, but they do not affect the public image of the gender gap, deepened by divorce parentin
  12 KB (1,750 words) - 11:58, 23 September 2020
• Mafia Raj (India)
  ...’ (Karim, informant quote). Comparatively, Italian and Russian ''Mafiosi'' do not seem to have the same ‘cultural’ motivations to enter directly into ...s and Sovereigns’, Theory, Culture and Society, 17(4): 35–54.</ref>). They do not present themselves as alternatives to the state but as ‘the state’.
  11 KB (1,561 words) - 16:03, 17 May 2019
• Chuồng Cọp (Vietnam)
  ...east Asia]] – [[:Category: Urban| Urban]] – [[:Category: Making do| Making do]] – [[:Category: Improvisation| Improvisation]] – [[:Category: Housing [[Category: Making do]]
  12 KB (1,690 words) - 09:51, 20 April 2021
• Travail au noir (France)
  ...nctional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: System made me do it| System made me do it]] – [[:Category: Survival| Survival]] – [[:Category: Informal entrep [[Category: System made me do it]]
  10 KB (1,561 words) - 15:08, 24 November 2021
• Pripiski (USSR)
  whose work was so chaotic that they were unable to do anything without do the same thing in competition with each other, making concealment more
  10 KB (1,540 words) - 17:12, 17 May 2019

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