The best laid plans: The impact of informal rules on formal institutions in transitional regimes

Studies in Comparative International Development

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-333

  Grzymala Busse, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Informal institutions; Post communist regimes; State administration

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; INFORMAL SECTOR; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POST-COMMUNISM; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 77955012838     PISSN: 00393606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12116-010-9071-y     Document Type: Article

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