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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... János Kádár, Hungarian communist leader First democratically elected (center right) government, Prime Minister József Antall (†1993) Socialist-liberal coalition government First Fidesz government (with coalition partners), Prime ...
... János Kornai, Balázs Krémer, Tamás Lattmann, László Lengyel, Ádám C. Nagy, Iván Pető, Eszter Rádai, Ákos Róna-Tas, Károly Attila Soós, Iván Szelényi, Éva Várhegyi, and Imre Vörös. Bálint Magyar November 2015 Foreword Many international ...
... János Kádár, but increasingly the ever-wealthier circle of entrepreneurs, from the small lessees of local government commercial premises to the moguls commissioning legislative regulations. Changes in everyday corruption following the ...
... János Kis, the early leader of the anti-communist dissident movement both intellectually and personally as a figurehead in the 1980s, presents the situation in a recent essay as follows:6 [In the] twenty years following the regime ...
... János Áder, to Brussels, though later the place of service for the latter was relocated, and he was reactivated as President of the Republic; Zoltán Pokorni became a mayor of one of the districts of the capital, while István Stumpf was ...
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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 |