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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... Fidesz moneylaundering machine reaches into the nooks and crannies of Hungarian daily life. The capture of the government by the adopted political family—the takeover of state by mafia—is not a routine political rotation of power. It is ...
... government, while in the economic sphere, guarantees for the preeminence of ... government, thereon the dominant characteristics can be said to constitute a new ... Fidesz had come to power—and has been fully realized since 2010 is best ...
... Fidesz government from 1998–2002, the progress of this model had tough institutional constraints. Though the democratic institutional system had been eroded, it was nevertheless upheld—more or less— by the laws requiring a two-thirds ...
... government.” Dorka Czenkli, “Éstőled mennyit lopottel a Fidesz?” [And how much has Fidesz stolen from you?], Magyar Narancs, 15 January 2015. http://magyarnarancs.hu/belpol/ es-toled-mennyit-lopott-el-a-fidesz-belvarosi-antikorrupcios ...
... Fidesz stigmatized the period that had passed since the regime change in retrospect, a western political establishment struggled with an eastern pattern of wealth and property accumulation. Thereby the elections and changes of government ...
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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 |