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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... Viktor Orbán Socialist government, until 2008 in coalition with liberals Hungary enters the European Union Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai Second Fidesz government (re-elected in 2014), Prime Minister Viktor ...
... Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz political party came to power in 2010 with a constitution-making majority, Hungary's public and private spheres were crisscrossed with conflicts of interest, were shadowed by behind-the-scenes deals across ...
... Viktor Orbán and his circle of insiders are lawyers. Not just lawyers— but friends who met in law school and who developed a highly legalistic way of entrenching their powers once they controlled the state. With Fidesz's constitutional ...
... Viktor Orbán, elected president of Fidesz in 1993, that the party could not grow to become a mass party positioned in the political center-left. Having observed the erosion of the first right-wing government after the regime change, the ...
... Viktor Orbán is definitive, though all of the others are also members of the team. At this time, next to the leader, there still existed the leadership. With the passing of a decade, of the whole team only the Boss has remained. The ...
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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 |