Trapped in informality? A study of informal politics in Georgia's Javakheti
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F19%3AA2001UKK" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/19:A2001UKK - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23761199.2018.1480191" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23761199.2018.1480191</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23761199.2018.1480191" target="_blank" >10.1080/23761199.2018.1480191</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Trapped in informality? A study of informal politics in Georgia's Javakheti
Original language description
The article focuses on Javakheti, Georgia's historical region with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population, in which informal political institutions play a crucial role. The article is largely based on field research which was conducted in three stages in 2011, 2015, and 2017. At first, I introduce the concept of informal politics. Contrary to the popular perception of informality as something negative and undesirable, I argue that informality is neither negative, nor positive, and that it is rather some of the byproducts of informal institutions, such as corruption, clientelism, blackmailing etc., which can be perceived as negative. Then, on the examples of five exogenous shocks, I demonstrate how the formal and informal in Javakheti coexists in a form of dynamic equilibrium. Finally I argue that the prevalence of informal politics in Javakheti should be seen as the second best strategy of Javakheti's political elite as well as of the Tbilisi-based government, whose demands on the formal institutional arrangement in Javakheti were incompatible.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Caucasus Survey
ISSN
2376-1199
e-ISSN
2376-1202
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
60-78
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85060685798