Informality in Eastern Europe : structures, political cultures and social practices

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Contents: Christian Giordano/Nicolas Hayoz: Introduction: Exploring in Eastern Europe through Different Disciplines - Christian Giordano: The Social Organization of Informality: The Rationale Underlying Personalized Relationships and Coalitions - Nicolas Hayoz: Observations on the Changing Meanings of - Anton Sterbling: Aspects of Informality - with Particular Focus on South-Eastern Europe - Kristof Van Assche/Anastasiya Shtaltovna/Anna-Katharina Hornidge: Visible and Invisible Informalities and Institutional Transformation in the Transition Countries of Georgia, Romania, and Uzbekistan - Maximos Aligisakis: Shadow Economy, Corruption and Informal Political Exchanges: The Greek Case in a Comparative Perspective - Nicole Gallina: Analysing Informality: A Case-Study Based Concept applied to the Czech Republic - Veronika Pasynkova: The Synchronization of Communist Legacy in Postcommunist Politics and Labour: the Case of Poland - Tanya Chavdarova: Institutionalization of Market Order and Reinstitutionalization of Vruzki (Connections) in Bulgaria - Katerina Gehl/Klaus Roth: The Everyday Culture of in Post-Socialist Bulgarian Politics - Sonja Schuler: Abuse of Office, Informal Networks, Moral Accountability - Political Corruption in Bulgaria - Edvin Zhllima/Drini Imami Informality: in Albania - The Case of Rural Land Tenure and Transactions - Adem Beha: Contested Statebuilding in Kosovo: the Nature and Characteristics of Serbian Parallel Structures - Fanny Sbaraglia: They are with the Others: From Gossip to Stigmatization, Romanian Civil Society through an Informal Perspective - Francois Ruegg: Social Representations of Informality: the Roma Case - Jonathan Wheatley: Informal and Formal Institutions in the Former Soviet Union - Galina Michaleva: The Dominance of Informal Politics on the Eve of the Electoral Year 2011-2012 - Elvira Leontyeva: Corruption Networks in the Sphere of Higher Education: An Example from Russian Mass Universities - Elena Denisova-Schmidt: How Unwritten Rules Can Influence Human Resource Management in Russia - Andrea Friedli: as a Weapon of the Weak? Public Representation of Tatar Youth Movements in Kazan, Russia - Abel Polese: The Ambiguity and Functions of Informality: Some Notes from the Odessa-Chisinau Route - Rail Safiyev: in a Neopatrimonial State: Azerbaijan - Alexander Iskandaryan: Formalization of the Informal: Statebuilding in Armenia - Giga Zedania and the Question of Modernization: the Case of Georgia.