Captured Societies in Southeast Europe

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The series aims to catalyze and showcase social research that is fundamentally grounded in engagement and interaction at the ground level in Southeast Europe, prioritizing grassroots perspectives and lived experiences. This series aims to catalyze and showcase social research that is built on engagement and interaction at the ground level in Southeast Europe. The INFORM project examined informal practices in Southeast European societies, studying the ways in which people accomplish the necessary tasks of life in an environment where formal institutions fail to meet their needs. The analysis problematises Europeanisation as an instance of superficial and incomplete implementation of imported systems of legal organisation.

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List of figures, INFORM 1. The INFORM project, informality, and societal capture 2. Social closure in captured societies 3. Politics in Southeast Europe: State and societal capture behind a liberal-democratic facade 4. Informal economies in Southeast Europe: Lost opportunities 5. Networks of trust and control in a world of the powerless 6. Where informality works, formal institutions can learn 7. Europeanisation meets informality: Extracting advantage from reform 8. Dealing with informality and societal capture, Bibliography, Chapter coordinators, Index