Legal institutions and informal networks

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-67

  De Mesquita, Ethan Bueno ^a,b,c   Stephenson, Matthew ^d  

^a Department of Political Science ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Informal economy; Informal networks; Legal institutions; Social norms; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 31944431592     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: 14603667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951629806059595     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Arnold, Barry C., N. Balakrishnan and H.N. Nagaraja (1992) A First Course in Order Statistics. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
2. Benson, Bruce L. (1990) The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy.
3. Bernstein, Lisa (1992) 'Opting Out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry', Journal of Legal Studies 12(1): 115-57.
4. Colson, Elizabeth (1974) Tradition and Contract. Chicago: Aldine.
5. Cooler, Robert D. (1996) 'Decentralized Law for a Complex Economy: The Structural Approach to Adjudicating the New Law Merchant', University of Pennsylvania Law Review 144(5): 1643-96.
6. Cooler, Robert D. and Janet T. Landa (1984) 'Personal Versus Impersonal Trade: The Size of Trading Groups and Contract Law', International Review of Law and Economics 4(1): 15-22.
7. De Soto, Hernando (1989) The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. New York: Harper and Row.
8. DiMaggio, Paul and Hugh Louch (1998) 'Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions: For What Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?', American Sociological Review 63(5): 619-37.
9. Edelman, Lauren B. and Mark C. Suchman (1997) The Legal Environments of Organizations', Annual Review of Sociology 23: 479-515.
10. Ellickson, Robert C. (1991) Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
11. Fafchamps, Marcel (1996) 'The Enforcement of Commercial Contracts in Ghana', World Development 24(3): 427-48.
12. Fearon, James D. and David D. Laitin (1996) 'Explaining Interethnic Cooperation', American Political Science Review 90(4): 715-35.
13. Granovetter, Mark (1973) 'The Strength of Weak Ties', American Journal of Sociology 78:1360-80.
14. Granovetter, Mark (1985) 'Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness', American Journal of Sociology 91: 481-510.
15. Greif, Avner (1993) 'Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition', American Economic Review 83(3): 525-48.
16. Kali, Raja (1999) 'Endogenous Business Networks', Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 15(3): 615-36.
17. Kranton, Rachel E. and Anand V. Swamy (1999) 'The Hazards of Piecemeal Reform: British Civil Courts and the Credit Market in Colonial India', Journal of Development Economics 58: 1-24.
18. Landa, Janet T. (1981) 'A Theory of the Ethnically Homogenous Middleman Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contract Law', Journal of Legal Studies 10(2): 349-62.
19. Lee, Tahirih V. (1993) 'Risky Business: Courts, Culture, and the Marketplace', University of Miami Law Review 47: 1335-414.
20. Lomborg, Bjorn (1996) 'Nucleus and Shield: The Evolution of Social Structure in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma', American Sociological Review 61(April): 278-307.
21. Macaulay, Stewart (1963) 'Non-contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study', American Sociological Review 28: 55-67.
22. Macy, Michael W. and John Skvoretz (1998) 'The Evolution of Trust and Cooperation Between Strangers: A Computational Model', American Sociological Review 63(5): 638-60.
23. Milgrom, Paul R., Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast (1990) 'The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchants, Private Judges, and The Champagne Fairs', Economics and Politics 2(1): 1-23.
24. Mizruchi, Mark S. and Linda Brewster Stearns (2001) 'Getting Deals Done: The Use of Social Networks in Bank Decision-Making', American Sociological Review 66(5): 647-71.
25. Moore. Sally Falk (1978) 'Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of Study', in S.F. Moore (ed.) Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach, pp. 54-81. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
26. North. Douglass C. (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
27. Platteau, Jean-Philippe (1994) 'Behind the Market Stage Where Real Societies Exist - Part I: The Role of Public and Private Order Institutions', Journal of Development Studies 30(3): 533-77.
28. Polanyi, Karl (1957) The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press.
29. Portes, Alejandro and Saskia Sassen-Koob (1987) 'Making It Underground: Comparative Material on the Informal Sector in Western Market Economies', American Journal of Sociology 93(1): 30-61.
30. Posner, Eric A. (1996) 'Law, Economics, and Inefficient Norms', University of Pennsylvania Law Review 144(5): 1697-744.
31. Powell, Walter W. and Laurel Smith-Doerr (1994) 'Networks and Economic Life', in Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds) Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation.
32. Shapiro, Susan P. (1987) 'The Social Control of Impersonal Trust', American Journal of Sociology 93(3: 623-58).
33. Skocpol, Theda (1985) 'Bringing the State Back in: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research', in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (eds) Bringing the State Back In, pp. 3-37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Uzzi, Brian (1996) The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect', American Sociological Review 61(4): 674-98.
35. Uzzi, Brian (1997) 'Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness', Administrative Science Quarterly 42(1): 35-67.
36. Uzzi, Brian (1999) 'Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing', American Sociological Review 64(4): 481-505.
37. Uzzi, Brian and Ryon Lancaster (2004) 'Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Corporate Law Market', American Sociological Review 69(3): 319-44.
38. Weiss, Linda (1987) 'Explaining the Underground Economy: State and Social Structure', The British Journal of Sociology 38(2): 216-34.
39. Winn, Jane Kaufman (1994) 'Relational Practices and the Marginalization of Law: Informal Financial Practices of Small Businesses in Taiwan', Law and Society Review 28(2): 193-232.