1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697369303321

Autore

Priest Sherlyn

Titolo

Hydrogeology and water quality of the Upper Three Runs aquifer in the vicinity of the Gibson Road Landfill, Fort Gordon, Georgia, June-November 1999 [[electronic resource] /] / by Sherlyn Priest and Kristen Bukowski McSwain ; prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Army, Environmental and Natural Resources Management, Office of the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, Ga. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2002

Descrizione fisica

iv, 22 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Water-resources investigations report ; ; 02-4153

Altri autori (Persone)

McSwainKristen Bukowski

Soggetti

Hydrogeology - Georgia - Fort Gordon

Groundwater - Pollution - Georgia - Fort Gordon

Sanitary landfills - Environmental aspects - Georgia - Fort Gordon

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Aug. 8, 2008).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955853503321

Autore

Ledeneva Alena V. <1964->

Titolo

How Russia really works : the informal practices that shaped post-Soviet politics and business / / Alena V. Ledeneva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca [N.Y.], : Cornell University Press, 2006

ISBN

9780801473524

0801473527

9780801470059

0801470056

9780801461682

0801461685

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 270 p. : ill

Collana

Culture and society after socialism

Disciplina

320.947

Soggetti

Political corruption - Russia (Federation)

Political culture - Russia (Federation)

Corporations - Corrupt practices - Russia (Federation)

Corporate culture - Russia (Federation)

Social networks - Russia (Federation)

Business networks - Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-

Russia (Federation) Economic conditions 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why are informal practices still prevalent in Russia? -- Chernyi piar : manipulative campaigning and the workings of Russian democracy -- Kompromat : the use of compromising information in informal politics -- Krugovaia poruka : sustaining the ties of joint responsibility -- Tenevoi barter : shadow barter, barter chains, and nonmonetary markets -- Dvoinaia bukhgalteriia : double accountancy and financial scheming -- Post-Soviet tolkachi : alternative enforcement and the use of law.

Sommario/riassunto

During the Soviet era, blat-the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal



procedures-was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s-from the hiring of firms to create negative publicity about one's competitors, to inventing novel schemes of tax evasion and engaging in "alternative" techniques of contract and law enforcement.Ledeneva discovers ingenuity, wit, and vigor in these activities and argues that they simultaneously support and subvert formal institutions. They enable corporations, the media, politicians, and businessmen to operate in the post-Soviet labyrinth of legal and practical constraints but consistently undermine the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. The "know-how" Ledeneva describes in this book continues to operate today and is crucial to understanding contemporary Russia.