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CHANGING EUROPE INFORMAL RELATIONS FROM DEMOC...

Informal relations have been one of the major research topics of the social sciences since the
1990s. In order to allow for meaningful comparisons between different combinations of the
positive and negative effects of informal relations on democratic representation  all the
articles in this book focus on post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe as a particular region
where formal democratic rules have been established but competing informal rules are still
strong. The first section discusses a broad spectrum of related analytical concepts from
different perspectives and from different academic disciplines. The second part then goes on to
analyse empirical cases of the relationship between informal relations and democratic
representation. The contributions span the whole continuum  as we perceive it  from civil
society networks seen as supporting democratic representation to the perversion of democratic
representation through political corruption. The final part of the book then takes a closer
look at corruption through four case studies from Russia. This book presents a selection of the
papers discussed at the Changing Europe Summer School on Informal Networks  Clientelism and
Corruption. Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe held in Prague at the Institute of
Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in August 2010.

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