Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of HungaryCentral European University Press, 10 feb. 2016 - 336 pagini In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law. At that time, many readers doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, whose key categories were the 'organized over-world', the 'state employing mafia methods' and the 'adopted political family'. Critics considered these categories metaphors rather than elements of a coherent conceptual framework. Ten years later Fidesz won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections: the institutional obstacles of exerting power were thus largely removed. 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. While in many post-communist systems a segment of the party and secret service became the elite in possession of not only political power but also of wealth, Fidesz, as a late-coming new political predator, was able to occupy this position through an aggressive change of elite. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are led by the logic of power and wealth concentration in the hands of the clan. But while the classical mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of interest 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 new conceptual framework is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. |
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... Orbán 2002–2010 Socialist government, until 2008 in coalition with liberals 2004 Hungary enters the European Union 2004–2009 Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány 2009–2010 Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai 2010– Second Fidesz government (re ...
... Orbán 2002–2010 Socialist government, until 2008 in coalition with liberals 2004 Hungary enters the European Union 2004–2009 Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány 2009–2010 Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai 2010– Second Fidesz government (re ...
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... Orbán and his Fidesz political party came to power in 2010 with a constitution-making majority, Hungary's public and private spheres were crisscrossed with conflicts of interest, were shadowed by behind-the-scenes deals across the major ...
... Orbán and his Fidesz political party came to power in 2010 with a constitution-making majority, Hungary's public and private spheres were crisscrossed with conflicts of interest, were shadowed by behind-the-scenes deals across the major ...
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... Orbán revolution, economy and politics were deeply intertwined in a novel arrangement that could not be described as state control of the economy (socialism) nor as the economic control of the state (state capture). It certainly was not ...
... Orbán revolution, economy and politics were deeply intertwined in a novel arrangement that could not be described as state control of the economy (socialism) nor as the economic control of the state (state capture). It certainly was not ...
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... Orbán's constitutional majority allowed him to rewrite all of the rules in an aggressively anti-liberal direction. With his new powers, he cut all of his cross-party partners-in-corruption out of their various secret joint deals. Orbán ...
... Orbán's constitutional majority allowed him to rewrite all of the rules in an aggressively anti-liberal direction. With his new powers, he cut all of his cross-party partners-in-corruption out of their various secret joint deals. Orbán ...
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... Orbán and his circle of insiders are lawyers. Not just lawyers—but friends who met in law school and who developed a highly legalistic way of entrenching their powers once they controlled the state. With Fidesz's constitutional majority ...
... Orbán and his circle of insiders are lawyers. Not just lawyers—but friends who met in law school and who developed a highly legalistic way of entrenching their powers once they controlled the state. With Fidesz's constitutional majority ...
Cuprins
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2 The disintegration of the Third Hungarian Republic in 2010 | 15 |
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 |
Back cover | 313 |
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