TY - BOOK AU - Sarigil,Zeki ED - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), ED - Project Muse. TI - How Informal Institutions Matter : : Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres / SN - 9780472903771 PY - 2023/// CY - Ann Arbor, Michigan PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Social institutions KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - Politics and government KW - Turkey KW - 1909- KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Open Access N2 - 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) UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/113580/ ER -