Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist Transformation

Diversity of trajectories of post-socialist transforming economies is a stylized fact of this experience of system change. The paper explores the relations between change in formal and informal rules in historical perspective, discussing new institutional views about rationality of formal institutio...

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Main Author: Bernard Chavance
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università Carlo Cattaneo LIUC 2008-06-01
Series:The European Journal of Comparative Economics
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Online Access:http://eaces.liuc.it/18242979200801/182429792008050103.pdf
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description Diversity of trajectories of post-socialist transforming economies is a stylized fact of this experience of system change. The paper explores the relations between change in formal and informal rules in historical perspective, discussing new institutional views about rationality of formal institutions and detrimental inertia of informal institutions. It submits that an open and complex approach of the centrality of formal/informal rules interaction may give a better explanation to the multiplicity of national post-socialist pathways.
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spelling doaj.art-880b199734154edd8e80dd08258833ec2022-12-22T03:09:59ZengUniversità Carlo Cattaneo LIUCThe European Journal of Comparative Economics1824-29792008-06-01515771Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist TransformationBernard ChavanceDiversity of trajectories of post-socialist transforming economies is a stylized fact of this experience of system change. The paper explores the relations between change in formal and informal rules in historical perspective, discussing new institutional views about rationality of formal institutions and detrimental inertia of informal institutions. It submits that an open and complex approach of the centrality of formal/informal rules interaction may give a better explanation to the multiplicity of national post-socialist pathways.http://eaces.liuc.it/18242979200801/182429792008050103.pdfPost-socialist transformationdiversity of trajectoriesinstitutional changeformal rulesinformal rulesenforcement
spellingShingle Bernard Chavance
Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist Transformation
The European Journal of Comparative Economics
Post-socialist transformation
diversity of trajectories
institutional change
formal rules
informal rules
enforcement
title Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist Transformation
title_full Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist Transformation
title_fullStr Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist Transformation
title_full_unstemmed Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist Transformation
title_short Formal and Informal Institutional Change : the Experience of Postsocialist Transformation
title_sort formal and informal institutional change the experience of postsocialist transformation
topic Post-socialist transformation
diversity of trajectories
institutional change
formal rules
informal rules
enforcement
url http://eaces.liuc.it/18242979200801/182429792008050103.pdf
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