Weak Institutions and the Governance Dilemma

Mariella Falkenhain is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany. Her work examines how individual and collective actors are shaped by and try to shape the institutional environment in which they operate. Her research has appeared, among others, in Voluntas, Global Policy, and the Journal of Civil Society.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Theorizing Gaps in Hybrid Regimes.- 3 Criminal Justice Policy in Georgia: NGOs Facing Shallow Reform.- 4 Social Protection in Georgia: NGOs in a Field of Low Political Salience.- 5 Criminal Justice Policy in Armenia: NGOs Facing Chronic Non-Enforcement.- 6 Social Protection in Armenia: NGOs and the Underproviding State.- 7 How NGOs Respond to Systemic and Provoked Gaps.- 8 Conclusion: Gaps, Traps and Ambiguity in Hybrid Regimes.