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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... forces. Constitutionally, a democratic regime is consolidated when govern- mental and nongovernmental forces alike become subject to, and habituated to, the resolution of conflict within the bounds of the spe- cific laws, procedures ...
... force in January 2012, it was then amended five times before the government's first term of office ended in 2014. Anytime the government hit a constitutional roadblock, they simply moved the road- block to the side of the road with a ...
... force , and it appeared that there was no way that the party could win another election . The Orbán government's rewriting of the elec- tion laws strategically disadvantaged the opposition at every turn while giving the benefit of every ...
... force structuring the system. An administrator having to be paid off in order for a contract to go through may poison public life in general, but as a private action of the parties involved, it does not undermine the foundations of the ...
... forces the participants of the business sector to pay for protection. The classical model for this is the Sicilian mafia, where the tentacles of the polyp rise from below to weave around the world of politics. The organized underworld ...
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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 |