INFORMAL POLITICAL PRACTICES: CONCEPTUALIZATION PROBLEMS
The author considers the ways of conceptualizing the notion “informal political practices”, traces the change in the approach to the notion from the point of view of such theories as old institutionalism, structural functionalism and neoinstitutionalism, and analyzes the possibilities of determining informal political practices taking into account not only the deformation in public administration (corruption, favoritism, clientela), but cultural features, traditions and moral standards adopted in a certain country.