The paper defines the key features of corruption and perception of corruption in Russia under Putin. It provides a comparison of trends of corruption perception index in the CIS region and CEE countries and focuses on specifics of President Putin’s policies in application. The analysis...

The paper defines the key features of Chinese guanxi and Russian blat networks, explores similarities and differences in the use of these networks both in communist and post-communist economies, and discovers their ambiguous relationship with the formal institutions. Having compared guanxixue...

The paper discusses three hypotheses. First, it introduces four ideal types of networks which are combined in the category of networks as used by social scientists. Four types result from the intersection of two implicit choices made about networks – networks are assumed to be either personal...