Limits of a Post-Soviet State : How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine / / Abel Polese, Andreas Umland

• Autore: Polese Abel
• Pubblicazione: Hannover, : ibidem, 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.7086
• Soggetto geografico: Ukraine Politics and government 1991-2014; Ukraine Politics and government 2014-
• Persona (resp. second.): UmlandAndreas
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction: where is informality?; Informality and the (welfare) state; Informality, borders and boundaries; Border crossing, petty trade and the role of informality in breaking artificial monopolies; Informality and grey areas: introducing the ""brift""; Informality between private and state initiative; The guest at the dining table: economic transitions and informal renegotiations of hospitality; Why bazaars are not wiped out by supermarkets: reflections on a possible bazaar economy ; New directions in informality studies? policy making and implementationBy way of conclusion: on current and further directions in informality research; How much of this book is about Ukraine?; What is informality?; Main themes of this book: (Over) Regulation and informality; 'In spite of the state' and 'beyond the state'; Morality, compliance Informality and the cubic watermelon paradigm; Cited works; 1 Introduction; 2 Welfare and the role of the state in post-socialism; 3 Individual agency and bottom-up welfare provision; 4 Reforms to the pension system from the bottom: Uzbekistan ; 5 Access (or lack thereof) to healthcare: Lithuania6 Welfare as childcare: Romania; 7 Conclusion; Cited works; 1 Redefining borders and their morality; 2 Scenes from a border; 3 A false bottom train; 4 Alternative ways of crossing; 5 Concluding remarks; Cited works; 1 Introduction: a running bazaar; 2 Hum, I am Sorry. . . Where is the Border?; 3 Smugglers or Traders?; 4 Do you have a Tomato? Scenes of ""Legal"" Corruption; 5 Conclusion; Cited works; 1 If I receive it, it is a gift. If I demand it, then it is a bribe.; 2 Informal payments and the role of the state; 3 Switching moralities ; 4 The academic 'moral code'5 'Survival techniques' of hospitals; 6 Concluding remarks; Cited works; 1 Introduction; 2 Informality and (lack of) Welfare; 3 Structure and agency in debates on informality; 4 Chernobyl; 5 Chernobyl Welfare; 6 Food and welfare; 7 Rejecting welfare and embracing place; 8 Conclusion; Cited works; 1 What's So Special about Eating? What All that Food Means; 2 What is Hospitality?; 3 Who is a Guest? Who is a Stranger?; 4 Step I: Entertaining the Host's Belly; 5 Food without Borders: The Dinner; 6 Discovering your Limits: Drinking ; 7 Final Reflections on Hospitality, Food and GuestsCited works; 1 Introduction: the role of bazaars in Odessa; 2 On the persistence of informal economic practices in the (post-Soviet) world; 3 The origins of bazaars in Odessa; 4 The morphology and function of bazaars of Odessa; 5 Post-1991 bazaars and their challenges; 6 The transformation of bazaars; 7 The future of bazaars in Odessa; Cited works; 1 Methodological considerations; 2 The context: evolution of language statuses in Ukraine; 3 Domesticating Ukrainian identities; 4 Concluding remarks; Cited works
• Sommario/riassunto: This book illustrates why and how informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary, but a constant in most systems of the world. The difference between various administrative structures is not whether informality is present or not, but where, in which areas, it is located. The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that, in some cases, informal mechanisms are self-protective, while, in others, they are perceived as ‘normal’ responses and a set of tactics for individuals, classes, and communities to respond to unusual demands. Where expectations—of the state, a company, or some commission—are too far from citizens’ existing models of normative behavior, informal behavior continues to thrive. Indeed, new tactics are adopted in order to cope with disjunctions between theory and reality as well as to serve as contrasts to values imposed by a center of power, such as a central state, a city administration, or the management board of a large company. The focus of the papers contained in this book is two-fold and rests on an analysis of phenomena manifesting themselves “beyond” and “in spite of” the state. The first part deals with areas where the state is not always, or only marginally, active whilst the second analyzes activities performed in conflict with state regulations, i.e. behavior often studied from a criminal and legal standpoint.
• Titolo autorizzato: Limits of a post-Soviet State
• ISBN: 3-8382-6845-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955323403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.