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Limits of a Post-Soviet State: How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine

Limits of a Post-Soviet State: How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine

Polese, Abel
Williams, Colin

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Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3838208854
ISBN13: 9783838208855
Publisher: Ibidem Pr
Published: Jun 14 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Though informed by case studies conducted in Ukraine, this book transcends its country-specific scope. It explains why informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary but a constant in most political systems. The book discusses self-protective mechanisms, responses to incomplete or unfocused policy making, and strategies employed by individuals, classes, and communities to respond to unusual demands. The book argues that when state or company expectations exceed normative behavior, informal behavior continues to thrive. New tactics help cope with the reality of governance. Informality also challenges the values imposed by power through attitudes and behaviors that take place beyond or in spite of the state.

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