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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... regime is consolidated when governmental and nongovernmental forces alike ... change was unthinkable. By the time it joined the EU, Hungary was no longer ... change have been blocked; one now sometimes hears among the demoralized and ...
... political party that uses its resources behind the scenes to perpetuate these ... regime in place to oversee and regularize the privatizations. The end result ... change of government in Hungary in 2010, new elites seized the spoils of ...
... political “relatives” in mafias are rewarded for loyalty, not merit, and divorces ... change the constitution at will. Twelve amendments of the inherited ... regime looked general but were quite specifically targeted at individuals. A ...
... political instrument. The crucial distinction between ordinary and constitutional ... change] . . . endangers the constitutional system of checks and balances ... Regime and the Revolution (trans. Alan Kahan) (Chicago: University of ...
... regime change following the collapse of East European communist regimes at the turn of 1989–1990 the formula seemed clear: a step was taken from one-party dictatorship with a state monopoly of property into a multi-party parliamentary ...
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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 |