Summary Report on Workshop 2: Formal and Informal Cooperation

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22-23 November, 2002

Friday, 22 November

Session 1 Interpersonal Trust and Democracy

Bo Rothstein, Professor of Political Science, Göteborg University, Sweden

Social Capital and Quality of Government: The Causal Mechanism *

Eric M. Uslaner, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland

and

Gabriel Badescu, Ph.D, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Honesty, Trust, and Legal Norms in the Transition to Democracy *

Alena V. Ledeneva, Social Sciences Department, SSEES, University College London

Non-transparency of the post-Communist economies: the relationship between the formal and the informal *

Larissa Adler Lomnitz, Professor of Sociology at University of Mexico

Trust, Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Post-Socialist Societies: A Comparative Analysis *

Session 2 Trust, State capture and Business Environment

Joel Hellman, Lead Specialist, The World Bank

and

Dani Kaufmann, Economist, The World Bank

Political Inequality and the Subversion of Institutions in Transition Economies

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E-mail addresses can be found in the Address List of Participants.

Martin Raiser, Chief Economist, EBRD

Why and Who Do Firms Trust? Evidence from a Survey of 26 Transition Economies

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Christopher Woodruff, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,UCSD

Establishing Confidence in Business Partners: Courts, Networks, and Relationships as Pillars of Support *

Karen S. Cook, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Trust and Networks of Informal Cooperation *

Saturday, 23 November

Session 3 Russia

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Ph.D, (CEFIR)

State Capture in the Russian Regions *

Alexandra Vacroux, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University

Regulation and Corruption of Russian Pharmacies

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Vadim Radaev, Professor of Economics, Chair of Economic Sociology State University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow

How Trust Is Established in Economic Relationships When Institutions and Individuals Are Not Trustworthy (The Case of Russia) *

Vadim Volkov, Professor of Sociology, The European University at St. Petersburg, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology

The Selective Use of State Capacity in Russia's Economy: Property. Disputes and Enterprise Takeovers after 1998

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Biographical information about the participants and the presented papers marked with asterisk are available by clicking on the name or on the title of the work. Revised versions will be posted later.

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The workshop is attended also by Natalia Letki, Annamária Orbán and Davide Torsello, who have submitted the following contributed papers:

Natalia Letki: Social Trust and Responses to Political and Economic Transformation in East-Central Europe

Annamária Orbán: “Community” Action for Collective Goods. Formal and Informal Cooperation in Hungarian Condominiums after Transition

Davide Torsello: When Informality Becomes Formalised. Trust, Mistrust and the Individual-Institutions Relations in a Southern Slovak village

Other Participants of the Workshop:

Bruce Ackerman	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Liz Barrett	CEU
Andrew Cartwright	CEU
Bernard Chavance	University Paris 7
Erzsébet Debreceni	MTA
Russell Hardin	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Gábor Iván	Rajk Kollegium, Budapest
János Kornai	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Ivan Krastev	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Jana Kunicova	World Bank Institute
Maria Lackó	WIIW, Vienna
Margaret Levi	Visiting Scholar, Collegium Budapest
Antal Örkény	Associate Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Júlia Parti	Assistant to Janos Kornai
Susan Rose-Ackerman	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
András Sajó	Associate Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Cornelia Sorabji	CEU
Balázs Szekfű	Budapest University of Economic Sciences
Piotr Sztompka	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Károly Takács	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Pál Tamás	MTA
Martin Tisné	CEU
György Istvan Tóth	TARKI
János Varga	Assistant to Janos Kornai
Violetta Zentai	CEU
László Zsolnai	Budapest University of Economic Sciences

The workshop was supported by generous grants from The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.