How Informal Institutions Matter : : Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres.

• Author: Sarigil, Zeki.
• TeilnehmendeR: Peters, B. Guy,; Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)

In How Informal Institutions Matter, Zeki Sarigil examines the role of informal institutions in sociopolitical life and addresses the following questions: Why and how do informal institutions emerge? To ask this differently, why do agents still create or resort to informal institutions despite the presence of formal institutional rules and regulations? How do informal institutions matter? What roles do they play in sociopolitical life? How can we classify informal institutions? What novel types of informal institutions can we identify and explain? How do informal institutions interact with formal institutions? How do they shape formal institutional rules, mechanisms and outcomes? Finally, how do existing informal institutions change? What factors might trigger informal institutional change? In order to answer these questions, Sarigil examines several empirical cases of informal institution as derived from various issue areas in the Turkish sociopolitical context (i.e., civil law, conflict resolution, minority rights, and local governance) and from multiple levels (i.e., national and local).

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Importance of Informal Institutions and Norms -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual and Theoretical Framework -- 3. A Symbiotic Informal Institution: Religious Marriage in Turkey -- 4. A Superseding Informal Institution: Cem Courts -- 5. A Layered Informal Institution: Religious Minority Holidays in Turkey -- 6. A Subversive Informal Institution: Multilingual Municipalism of the Kurdish Movement -- 7. Conclusions and Implications -- Bibliography -- Index.