Неформальні інститути в гібридних режимах: випадок України (Informal Institutions in Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Ukraine)

Цей звіт було підготовлено за результатами семінару «Розробка навчального курсу», що відбувся за підтримки корпорації Карнегі у Каліфорнійському університеті в м. Берклі. У звіті зроблений огляд найважливіших досліджень у галузі неформальних інститутів, зокрема клієнтелізму і їх проявів у гібридних режимах на прикладі України (This field report was prepared for the “Course Development Workshop”, which was supported by the Carnegie Corporation at the University of California in Berkeley. The report provides an overview of the literature on informal institutions, including clientelism in hybrid regimes, focusing on the case of Ukraine

Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for over 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the rule of law, corruption, and accountability. These norms correlate systematically and strongly with national scores on cultural dimensions and also differ across cultural regions of the world. Regressions indicate that quantitative measures of national culture are alone remarkably predictive of governance, that economic inequality and British heritage add to predictive power, but that economic development and other factors add little. The results suggest a framework for understanding the relations between fundamental institutions of social order as well as policy implications for reform programs in transition economies.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39991/3/wp605.pd

Resources, Rent-seeking, and Reform in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): the Economics-Politics nexus

This article examines the economics-politics nexus in Thailand and Myanmar in the context of rent-seeking, revenues from oil and gas resources, and possible political reform

Convergence or replacement? Attitudes towards political and religious institutions in contemporary Romania

Unlike other Post-Communist countries, Romania displays three clear individual-level trends related to political and religious institutions. The Romanians are the most supportive for the EU and Church, and the most critical towards national political institutions in the region. By conducting an empirical longitudinal study on the Romanian population, we aim to understand the linkages between these two trends and to identify what can explain the high level of trust vested by the Romanian citizens in the Orthodox Church in the post-Communist period. In doing so, we test two alternative explanations and we employ bivariate and multivariate statistics. The results indicate that there is weak evidence for the relationship between trust in political and religious institutions, with a stronger emphasis on the EU aspect. Whenever the attitudes are linked, they are consistent: positive attitudes towards the national government and Parliament trigger positive attitudes towards the Church

Calling the judiciary to account for the past : transitional justice and judicial accountability in Nigeria

Institutional and individual accountability is an important feature of societies in transition from conflict or authoritarian rule. The imperative of accountability has both normative and transformational underpinnings in the context of restoration of the rule of law and democracy. This article argues a case for extending the purview of truth-telling processes to the judiciary in postauthoritarian contexts. The driving force behind the inquiry is the proposition that the judiciary as the third arm of government at all times participates in governance. To contextualize the argument, I focus on judicial governance and accountability within the paradigm of Nigeria’s transition to democracy after decades of authoritarian military rule