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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... positions of the intelligentsia in culture and education ....................... 132 5.7.3. Domestication of Non-Government Organizations ......... 139 5.8. Patron-client relations in place of class relations ................ 142 5.8.1 ...
... positions as well. Since the shortage economy dissolved in the interactions of the participants of the private sector, the arena of corruption was driven back into the channels of business established between the private and public ...
... positions with chaotic autonomy, often competitive in itself. The Hungarian political parties—with the exception of the Alliance of Young Democrats (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége, Fidesz)—did not establish their own business ventures to ...
... positions and protection money squeezed out of those below, ceases to exist, because in possession of public authority, the organized upperworld simply taxes and takes an allowance from those below in the form of “protection money.” The ...
... positions generating wealth. The eastern patterns of nepotism emerging in this battle—escalated by the political elite and causing continuous social and political turbulence—ate away, and finally largely devoured the western political ...
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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 |