Informality and Politics in the Global South: Three Perspectives
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چکیده
Informality is often studied by scholars of urban studies but has received comparatively little attention political scientists. This surprising given the fact that large portions world’s population live, work, or transfer funds informally. The conventional wisdom informal economy—the portion economy operating outside regulatory reach state—is not very because sector workers are relatively atomized and find collective action to be costly. three books reviewed here, however, demonstrate only characterized important forms organization also affects politics within government institutions—and can even contribute regime downfall. Calla Hummel’s Why Informal Workers Organize Shelby Grossman’s Politics Order in Markets examine among workers, with Hummel probing circumstances under which occurs Grossman when such organizations effective. In Black Militants , Medani takes opposite perspective, examining how financial flows networks affect state capacity. These marshal significant amounts original data, pointing future research on these dynamics conducted.
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عنوان ژورنال: Perspectives on Politics
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1541-0986', '1537-5927']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592722002651