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dc.contributor.editorLedeneva, Alena
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-01 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-11 13:45:08
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:14:18Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:14:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier642570
dc.identifierOCN: 1030816174en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30815
dc.description.abstractAlena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship), identity-driven practices of solidarity, and power-driven forms of co-optation and control. The paradox, or not, of the invisibility of these informal practices is their ubiquity. Expertly practised by insiders but often hidden from outsiders, informal practices are, as this book shows, deeply rooted all over the world, yet underestimated in policy. Entries from the five continents presented in this volume are samples of the truly global and ever-growing collection, made possible by a remarkable collaboration of over 200 scholars across disciplines and area studies. By mapping the grey zones, blurred boundaries, types of ambivalence and contexts of complexity, this book creates the first Global Map of Informality. The accompanying database is searchable by region, keyword or type of practice, so do explore what works, how, where and why!
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFringe
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movementsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHX Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorshipen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSL Geopoliticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagementen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement::JPWG Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent actionen_US
dc.subject.otherglobal informality
dc.subject.otherinformality
dc.subject.otherinformal practices
dc.subject.otherBribery
dc.titleThe Global Encyclopaedia of informality
dc.title.alternativeUnderstanding Social and Cultural Complexity, Volume 1
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/111.9781911307907
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydf73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2
oapen.relation.isbn9781911307884
oapen.relation.isbn9781911307891
oapen.relation.isbn9781911307877
oapen.relation.isbn9781911307860
oapen.pages464
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia page: Bribery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery
oapen.identifier.ocn1030816174


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