1st Edition
Captured Societies in Southeast Europe Networks of Trust and Control
216 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This series aims to catalyze and showcase social research that is built on engagement and interaction at the ground level in Southeast Europe. The INFORM project examined informal practices in Southeast European societies, studying the ways in which people accomplish the necessary tasks of life in an environment where formal institutions fail to meet their needs. The analysis problematises... Read more
List of figures, INFORM 1. The INFORM project, informality, and societal capture 2. Social closure in captured societies 3. Politics in Southeast Europe: State and societal capture behind a liberal-democratic facade 4. Informal economies in Southeast Europe: Lost opportunities 5. Networks of trust and control in a world of the powerless 6. Where informality works, formal institutions can learn 7. Europeanisation meets informality: Extracting advantage from reform 8. Dealing with informality and societal capture, Bibliography, Chapter coordinators, Index
Biography
Eric Gordy is Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and a founder of the Global Informality Project (in-formality.com).
Predrag Cveti?anin is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš, Serbia, and director of the independent research institute Centre for Empirical Studies of Southeast Europe.
