Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of HungaryCentral European University Press, 1 mar. 2016 - 336 pagini Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ |
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... (Budapest: Noran Libro, 2013 and 2014) I would like to thank Márton Kozák. I am also grateful for critical observations from Mihály Andor, Attila Ara-Kovács, László Békesi, István Csillag, András György Deák, Csaba Gombár, Pál Juhász ...
... Budapest, which was widely regarded as the most stable and sympathetic home for civil society groups in the region. Hungary's 2003 referendum on joining the European Union chalked up 84% for the “yes” camp. The country entered the EU in ...
... Budapest.4 If a business that rents a local government owned premises and attempts to acquire possession of the same premises with a bribe to the local government official, this would be an example of day-to-day corruption. This would ...
... mid-1990s. (A return following due penance and pardon saw him not in a political role, but as project director of the reconstruction of the Budapest Sport Arena and then 41 2. The disintegration of the Third Hungarian Republic in 2010.
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from the functional disorders of democracy to a critique of the system | 57 |
4 Definition of the postcommunist mafia state | 67 |
a subtype of autocratic regimes | 73 |
6 The legitimacy deficit faced by the mafia state and the means to overcome it | 209 |
the ideological arsenal | 231 |
8 The Criminal State | 255 |
9 Pyramid schemesthe limits of the mafia state | 269 |
Annexes | 297 |
List of accompanying studies | 304 |
Former publications | 306 |
Index of Names | 309 |