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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... the coalition government of the socialists and liberals ............................................... 25 2.5.1. Lack in symbolic, community-building politics .............. 27 2.5.2. Distributive politics and its exhaustion .............
... Socialist-liberal coalition government First Fidesz government (with coalition partners), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Socialist government, until 2008 in coalition with liberals Hungary enters the European Union Prime Minister Ferenc ...
... (socialism) nor as the economic control of the state (state capture). It certainly was not fully liberal, in which state and economy are separate and the former only lightly regulates the latter. Economic and political tools were used in ...
... socialist countries rapidly privatized huge swaths of the economy in the 1990s without a regulatory regime in place to oversee and regularize the privatizations. The end result overwhelmingly benefited regime insiders and provided ...
... Socialist Workers' Party peak membership under communism, it was not anticipated that in 1990–91 the combined membership of the new parties would be around the tenth of the same figure of the former communist party. Which rate continued ...
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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 |