Join NYU's Jordan Center for a talk with Alena Ledeneva from University College London on informality in Russia. Russia is a perfect laboratory for researching informal practices, unwritten rules and open secrets. How does Russia compare to other countries? Are some countries more informal than others? On the basis of context-rich comparative material from the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Ledeneva will speak on informal governance in the past, present and future: kompromat, informal co-optation/control, cyberinformality and many others.

Speaker:

Alena Ledeneva, professor of politics and society, University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies