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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... accumulation of wealth ............ 73 5.2. Key players of the mafia state: the ruling elite and its accessories .......................................................... 74 5.2.1. The poligarch ...............................
... of the mafia state's ruling elite from other historical analogies ............................................ 109 5.5. “Law of rule” in place of the “rule of law” ......................... 113 5.5.1. Constitutional coup d' ...
... elite .................. 173 5.11.1. The alliance of Fidesz and the “Christian middle-class” ... 175 5.11.2. The ... elite and ensuring surrender ...... 178 5.11.4. The offer that could not be refused ......................... 179 5.11.5 ...
... elite falling into disrepute, its routine operational role did not become a systemic operational role, fundamentally determining political goals. Rather it merely constituted a world loosely controlled from the center, profiting from ...
... elite had in part eliminated this factor, and partly confined it to certain limits, domesticated it. The fountain of fortunes from oil bleaching had been shut by legislature in 1995. Meanwhile, following the drawn-out turf wars and ...
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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 |