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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... adopted political family, an alternative rebel turned godfather ............... 40 2.7.2. Socialisterosion, liberal vaporization and Fidesz's ... political family's expropriation of databases ensuring democratic control vi Table of Contents.
... political family ....................... 116 5.5.4. The lexes—custom tailored legislation ... adopted political family instead of a professional bureaucratic administration ....................................... 125 5.6.1. Array of ...
... adopted political family—the takeover of state by mafia—is not a routine political rotation of power. It is the rotation of political power designed to eliminate the further rotation of political power. What can be done? Of course, the ...
... political evolution taken since the regime change. It is not merely a matter of a distorted, truncated democracy or ... adopted political family by means of mafia culture elevated on the rank of central politics, operating a state ...
... adopted political family. After a few days of renting the premises the new individuals with the rental status can become the owners at a discount price. The right to a preferential rate those renting premises to become owners of 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 |