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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... European Union ..................... 273 9.2.2. Opening towards the East ..................................... 277 9.2.3. The disparate logic of EU and US sanctions ..................
... European Union Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai Second Fidesz government (re-elected in 2014), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Acknowledgements For his indispensable assistance in the completion of this Timeline ...
... Europe and one of the least chaotic economic transitions. International NGOs put their East-Central European ... European Union chalked up 84% for the “yes” camp. The country entered the EU in 2004 after it had sailed through ...
... European Union, Council of Europe, OSCE, United States and others have routinely criticized the Hungarian government—and even used their limited powers to rap Hungary on the knuckles a few times—but these friends of Hungary find ...
... Union: Russia under Putin, Azerbaijan, or other Central Asian former member republics of the Soviet Union. The difference in the case of Hungary is merely in the 2 POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE.
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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 |