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Créer des ponts entre les disciplines. Institutions, réseaux, pratiques

Ledeneva, AV; (2010) Créer des ponts entre les disciplines. Institutions, réseaux, pratiques. In: Fontaine, Laurence and Weber, Florence, (eds.) Les paradoxes de l'economie informelle: A qui profitent les règles? (pp. 23-49). Karthala: Paris, France.

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Abstract

Given the importance of informal ways of getting things done in the post-Soviet transition and more globally, research into the field of informality has been slow to develop. Some of the reasons are of pragmatic nature. In studying informal institutions, networks and practices, the researcher often encounters methodological challenges, pressures to work cross discipline as well as unwelcoming attitudes of respondents. But there are also conceptual puzzles of integrating the informal dimension into disciplinary research, as well as moral resistance to find out inconvenient facts about the functionality of grey areas for politics, economy and society. In certain contexts, it is wrong to assume that the formal rules are universally applied, clear, enforceable, and fundamentally beneficial and that the informal way of getting things done are always detrimental. This chapter offers some nuanced solutions by introducing a distinction between concepts of informal and in-formal and by emphasizing the distinction between perspectives on rules and perspectives on players` strategies.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Créer des ponts entre les disciplines. Institutions, réseaux, pratiques
ISBN-13: 9782811104177
Publisher version: https://www.karthala.com/accueil/2373-4380-les-par...
Language: French
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UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1346408
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