2017
DOI: 10.1177/0010414016679177
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Disobedient Markets: Street Vendors, Enforcement, and State Intervention in Collective Action

Abstract: AcknowledgmentsHundreds of people helped with this project and I am deeply indebted to all of them. First, this project only exists because of the incredible women and men who work on the streets and put in extra hours to organize their colleagues and demand a better life. I am grateful to the dozens of street vendors in Bolivia and Brazil who decided to trust me, talk with me, and teach me. I am especially grateful to the women and men who took the time to explain how the markets work, how to sell in them, an… Show more

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“…In La Paz's street markets, tens of thousands of street vendors want licenses and could potentially bribe bureaucrats (Hummel 2017). A handful of bureaucrats at the Markets Office control licensing decisions and can use their position to demand rents from these tens of thousands of potential bribers.…”
Section: Bribery Cartelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In La Paz's street markets, tens of thousands of street vendors want licenses and could potentially bribe bureaucrats (Hummel 2017). A handful of bureaucrats at the Markets Office control licensing decisions and can use their position to demand rents from these tens of thousands of potential bribers.…”
Section: Bribery Cartelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Streets creep up all sides of the valley, supplying the city's main markets on its west side, working-class neighborhoods to the north and east, and affluent settlements in the south. La Paz has hundreds of open-air street markets, where fifty to sixty thousand of the city's one million residents work (Hummel 2017). The center of the city hosts the most profitable markets while new vendors regularly create new and less profitable markets in the city's expanding peripheral neighborhoods.…”
Section: Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The erosion of ideological linkages between parties and economically vulnerable citizens does not preclude alternative ways of political engagement. Informal workers in specific occupations (such as street vending) and locations (such as those living in urban slums) have traditionally developed strategies to negotiate the use of the public space to continue their economic activities (Singerman 1996;Cross 1998;Hummel 2017; Crossa Niell 2018) and to demand public goods and services for particular locales (Perlman 2010; Agarwala 2013). 3 Moreover, economic and livelihood vulnerability might make short-term private benefits more attractive than uncertain policy proposals.…”
Section: A Note On Nonprogrammatic Linkages and The Informal Sectormentioning
confidence: 99%