How Informal Institutions Matter
Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres
Abstract
In How Informal Institutions Matter, Zeki Sarigil examines the role of informal institutions in sociopolitical life and addresses the following questions: Why and how do informal institutions emerge? To ask this differently, why do agents still create or resort to informal institutions despite the presence of formal institutional rules and regulations? How do informal institutions matter? What roles do they play in sociopolitical life? How can we classify informal institutions? What novel types of informal institutions can we identify and explain? How do informal institutions interact with formal institutions? How do they shape formal institutional rules, mechanisms, and outcomes? Finally, how do existing informal institutions change? What factors might trigger informal institutional change? In order to answer these questions, Sarigil examines several empirical cases of informal institution as derived from various issue areas in the Turkish sociopolitical context (i.e., civil law, conflict resolution, minority rights, and local governance) and from multiple levels (i.e., national and local).
Keywords
institutional theory, informal institutions, typology of informal institutions, symbiotic informal institutions, superseding informal institutions, layered informal institutions, subversive informal institutions, religious marriage, the Cem courts, religious minority holidays, multilingual municipalism, civil law, conflict resolution, minority rights, local governance, ethnic and religious minorities, Kurdish movement, Alevi minority, non-Muslims, survey research, interviews, focus groupsDOI
10.3998/mpub.12334157ISBN
9780472076383, 9780472056385, 9780472903771Publisher
University of Michigan PressPublisher website
https://www.press.umich.edu/Publication date and place
2023Classification
Politics & government
Political structure & processes
International institutions