The Informal Economy in Global Perspective: Varieties of Governance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319409306)

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world. Specifically, it analyzes how the governance mechanisms of formal institutions are questioned, challenged and renegotiated through informal institutions. Whilst there is an emerging body of scholarship focusing on informal practices, this is scattered across a number of disciplines. This edited collection, by contrast, fosters a dialogue on these issues, moving away from monodisciplinary and normative methodologies that view informal institutions and practices simply as temporary economic phenomena. In doing so, the authors provide a wider understanding of how governance is composed of both the formal and the informal, which complement each other but are also constantly in competition. This novel approach will appeal to social scientists, economists, policy-makers, practitioners, and anyone else willing to widen their understanding of how governance works.

Author: Abel Polese
ISBN-10: 3319409301
ISBN-13: 9783319409306
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2017
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d