Description

• Title:
  Changes in Informal Institutions in Poland and Transition Countries
• Creator:
  Gruszewska, Ewa
• Description:
   The research paper presents institutional systems of economies in the  following transforming countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. The article aims at indicating the changes which  have taken place in informal institutions' structures since the early nineties. It also  attempts to determine how informal institutions are supporting formal institutions.  Heading towards building new institutional systems, transforming countries face  a barrier of slowly evolving informal institutions. A mismatch between institutional  structures can be noticed in transforming countries. Low level of trust in people,  resistance to new ideas, strong attachment to traditional behavioural patterns and  excessive role of “connections”, relatively low level of self-expression, high expectations  towards the state and its welfare functions, and low social activity within the  society, can be observed. The institutional changes in informal components have  been presented using data from World Values Survey, CEPII and G.Hofstede research.    
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2014.06.17
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Equilibrium; Bd. 9 Nr. 1 (2014); 39-58;
  Equilibrium. Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2014); 39-58;
  Equilibrium; Tom 9 Nr 1 (2014); 39-58
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/EQUIL/article/view/EQUIL.2014.003/3882
• Subject:
  Institutions;
  Informal Institutions;
  Transition
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/EQUIL/article/view/EQUIL.2014.003
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text