Everyday tactics and spaces of power: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine

Round, John; Williams, Colin C.; Rodgers, Peter

doi:10.1080/14649360701856110

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“…Moreover, similar to government welfare spending, nonprofit sector employment data for the early transition period is unreliable within many FSU countries. Further, much of the nonprofit sector employment that did exist in Ukraine or Russia was taking place in the informal economy (Round, Williams, & Rodgers, 2008). Thus measuring nonprofit sector size as a % of employment might not be reflective of actual size.…”

Section: Social Origins Theory (Sot)mentioning

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Civil liberties and Volunteering in Six Former Soviet Union Countries

Kamerāde

Crotty

Ljubownikow

2016

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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To contribute to the debate as to whether volunteering is an outcome of democratization rather than a driver of it, we analyze how divergent democratization pathways in six countries of the former Soviet Union have led to varied levels of voluntary work. Using data from the European Values Study, we find that Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia -which followed a Europeanization path -have high and increasing levels of civil liberties and voluntary work. In Russia and Belarus, following a pre-emption path, civil liberties have remained low and voluntary work has declined. Surprisingly, despite the Orange Revolution and increased civil liberties, voluntary work rates in Ukraine have also declined. The case of Ukraine indicates that the freedom to participate is not always taken up by citizens. Our findings suggest it is not voluntary work that brings civil liberties, but rather that increased civil liberties lead to higher levels of volunteering.

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Section: Social Origins Theory (Sot)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Civil liberties and Volunteering in Six Former Soviet Union Countries

Kamerāde

Crotty

Ljubownikow

2016

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…More recently however, this 'exit' perspective has also been argued by a wider collection of both public choice scholars (for a review, see Gërxhani, 2004b) as well as critical, post-colonial, poststructuralist, post-development and post-capitalist scholars seeking to transcend the conventional 'thin' depiction of monetary exchange as universally market-like and profitdriven by adopting 'thicker' portrayals that unpack the messy logics of monetized transactions (Escobar 1995;Zelizer 2005). For example, this has been argued by those drawing attention to how informal work is often conducted for and by kin, neighbours, friends and acquaintances and for reasons other than purely financial gain (Persson and Malmer, 2006;Round and Williams, 2008;Williams, 2004;Round, 2008, 2010).…”

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Explaining participation in the informal economy: An institutional incongruence perspective

Williams

Horodnic

Windebank

2015

International Sociology

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Drawing inspiration from institutional theory, a small sub-stream of literature has proposed that participation in the informal economy arises from the lack of alignment of a society's formal institutions (i.e., its codified laws and regulations) with its informal institutions (i.e., the norms, values and beliefs of its population). To further advance this explanation, this paper reports a 2013 Eurobarometer survey involving 27,563 face-to-face interviews across 28 European countries. The finding is that there is a strong association between the degree to which formal and informal institutions are unaligned and participation in the informal economy. The greater is the asymmetry between the formal and informal institutions, the more likely is participation in the informal economy at both the individual-, population groupand country-level. A new policy approach for tackling the informal economy which focuses upon reducing this institutional incongruence is then discussed.

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“…The result is a representation of participants in informal markets as social actors rather than rational economic actors (Nelson and Smith, 1999;Round and Williams, 2008;Williams, 2004). This view recognizes that informal work is often conducted for and by kin, neighbors, friends and acquaintances for social or redistributive rationales, such as to give an unemployed person money in a manner that avoids any connotation that charity is involved, which might prevent the recipient from accepting the money (Kempson, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

Why do consumers purchase goods and services in the informal economy?

Williams

Martínez-Pérez

2014

Journal of Business Research

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To evaluate critically the dominant discourse that consumers acquiring goods and services in the informal economy are rational economic actors seeking a lower price, the results of a 2007 Eurobarometer survey involving 26,659 face-to-face interviews in 27European Union member states form the basis for analysis. The finding is that achieving a lower price is the sole motive for just 44 per cent of informal economy purchases, one of several rationales in 28 per cent of transactions and not a rationale in 28 per cent of acquisitions. Consumers also use the informal economy to circumvent the shortcomings of the formal economy in terms of the availability, speed and quality of goods and services provision, as well as for social and redistributive reasons, with multilevel mixedeffects logit regression analysis revealing how the prevalence of these rationales significantly vary across populations. The paper concludes by discussing the theoretical and policy implications of the findings.

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Everyday tactics and spaces of power: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine

Cited by 104 publications

References 17 publications

Civil liberties and Volunteering in Six Former Soviet Union Countries

Civil liberties and Volunteering in Six Former Soviet Union Countries

Explaining participation in the informal economy: An institutional incongruence perspective

Why do consumers purchase goods and services in the informal economy?

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