Despite a growing number of studies featuring “informality” in their title, including many from
the post-socialist region, little has been done to reach a consensus on what informality …

After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education
systems in preparing students for the" real world" changed. Though young people were …

Issues of university autonomy, self-governance, and centralization and decentralization are
still at the forefront of higher education in Ukraine. This study of university governance …

This paper investigates a possible impact of education corruption on economic growth in
Russia. It argues that high levels of education corruption may harm total factor productivity in …

Hybridity as a heuristic concept of the globalization and post-colonialism discourses is used
for 1) understanding the logic of the modernization of the higher education of Ukraine (HEU) …

Huseyn Aliyev examines how, when, and under which conditions democratic institutional
reforms affect informal institutions in hybrid regimes, or countries transitioning to democracy …

In this paper, we investigate experimentally the effect of an anti-corruption intervention–an
info folder based on materials developed by Transparency International–on Ukrainian …

We use three analytic steps to examine public investment in short-cycle tertiary education.
First, reviewing the historical development, the literature reveals that national and regional …

This study analyses the issue of comparative corruption in the national higher education
sectors in the United States of America (USA) and the Russian Federation (RF). Corruption …

This paper argues that the neoliberal consensus about education finance has broken down
due to growing economic inequality. First, I use a comparative historical analysis of political …