{"product_id":"captured-societies-in-southeast-europe-9789633866436","title":"Captured Societies in Southeast Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Southeast Europe there is a big disjunction between formal procedures and informal practicesand this gap is growing. When formal institutions fail, informal practices can solve problems. These practices can be viewed critically, as a space for favoritism and corruption, or favorably, as a space of creative problem-solving. In any case, informal practices consolidate the hold of unaccountable actors on power.\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents findings from a collaborative and multidisciplinary research project. During a three-year exercise, a group of forty researchers looked at the world of informal practices in nine countries of Southeast Europe. The main strength in their procedures is the reciprocal modification and cross-checking between interviews and media, and the assemblage of comparative quantitative data.\u003cbr\u003eIn the context of a mismatch between the way the world is and the world as described by law, the Balkans add a unique perspective due to a persistent deficit in state legitimacy and capacity. The underlying agenda is to bring Southeast Europe into line with European liberal democracy. The emerging evidence offers a critical assessment of Europeanization processes that produce only superficial changes and formal institutional resolutions. The book offers a rich analysis of the array of informal practices that people in the Balkans have resorted to in compensation for the poor implementation of formal reforms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53212714303831,"sku":"9789633866436","price":99.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/captured-societies-in-southeast-europe-9789633866436","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}