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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... decisions, but to manage decisions taken by the political family ....................... .... 116 116 5.5.4. The lexes—custom tailored legislation ....................... 117 5.5.5. Suppressing the control functions of other ...
... decisions in the shadows. Like in families on which they are modeled, the political “relatives” in mafias are rewarded for loyalty, not merit, and divorces occur on grounds of disloyalty rather than bad performance. The distribution of ...
... decisions concerning alloca- tion of resources, procurements, concessions, and entitlements. As a result, illegal ... decision accepts or requests financial or other benefits for handling a case in a manner advantageous to the ...
... the shortage economy that accompanied state monopoly, individuals would find themselves equipped with some stock, service, or competency in a discretional decision to sell, for which they could 4 POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE.
... decision-making in areas affected by corruption: displacing advantages tied to everyday consumption, state ... decisions grew significantly: it was no longer the one white porcelain toilet bowl one could acquire under 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 |