As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. This book looks at

The culture of politics within any system of governance is influenced by how state and society interact, and how these relationships are mediated by existing po

The authors of Informal Politics in East Asia, first published in 2000, argue that political interaction within the informal dimension (behind-the-scenes politi

This book introduces a theory for how the state shapes private governance, leveraging data from informal markets in Lagos, Nigeria.

Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected 'informal' or 'precarious' workers. As a resu