2011
DOI: 10.5129/001041511795274922
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Informal Politics and the State

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“…85-86), ranging from ad hoc street bureaucrats' discretion (à la Lipsky), the production of 'policy short circuits' to directly contradict existing legislation (à la Roy), and the laisser-faire, tolerance, or even reproduction of informal settlements and activities through temporary (turning permanent) arrangements, as a way to manage urban poverty (à la Chatterjee). There is a growing interest for rethinking the state through the concept of informality, as announced in the concluding sections of recent publications on urban governance (Boudreau, 2016;Davis, 2017;Morelle et al, 2016) or on the state (Radnitz, 2011). This interest is often, actually, inspired by Roy's work.…”
Section: Taking 'Informal Practices Of the State' Seriouslymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…85-86), ranging from ad hoc street bureaucrats' discretion (à la Lipsky), the production of 'policy short circuits' to directly contradict existing legislation (à la Roy), and the laisser-faire, tolerance, or even reproduction of informal settlements and activities through temporary (turning permanent) arrangements, as a way to manage urban poverty (à la Chatterjee). There is a growing interest for rethinking the state through the concept of informality, as announced in the concluding sections of recent publications on urban governance (Boudreau, 2016;Davis, 2017;Morelle et al, 2016) or on the state (Radnitz, 2011). This interest is often, actually, inspired by Roy's work.…”
Section: Taking 'Informal Practices Of the State' Seriouslymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Informal politics is often observable only by inference, much like the shadows in Plato's cave (Radnitz, 2011), and some fieldworkintensive techniques, such as participant observation and interviewing, are the most commonly used to obtain relevant data. We have also relied on interviews to research informal interference in the judiciary, and we have opted for a small-N research design to be able to carry them out.…”
Section: The Casesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The connection between informal politics and development has been addressed extensively by the economic, political science, and sociological literature. We have learned that different degrees of informal politics may exist at different levels of socioeconomic development, and that not all of them are harmful to development (Radnitz, 2011;Williamson, 2009). Indeed, it seems that the spontaneity and immediacy of informal interaction is an important element of social life and therefore constitutes an effective tool to solve problems of social organization (Böröcz, 2000, p. 358;Radnitz, 2011, p. 352;Reh, 2012).…”
Section: Socioeconomic Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In essence, formal institutions are a central theme as the subject representing a change, while leaving informal institutions aside which are labeled with being problematic [14], a source of corruption [15], or with resistance, rather than being an option for mobilizing a change. While some scholars remain skeptical, many have argued that, in addition to informal institutions' importance, such institutions are apparently durable and not always hangover of 'tradition' [16]. As a result, a more nuanced approach of informal institutions and their intersection with the formal has accentuated to overcome the predominantly negative meanings attached to informal institutions [17][18].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%