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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... campaigns at most. Later it was unbound from those confines by the bitter struggle within the political elite, which employed verbal aggression as an instrument of extreme political and social polarization. This brought into being the ...
... campaigns directed from above: they form the audience at séances of ritual and verbal lynching directed from the center. If the lives of the people cannot be made easier, let their chains rattle at least—both literally and virtually (as ...
... campaigns that are open to demagogy: the objective is to ensure that—to protect democratic values—these institutions are not exposed to pressures for popularity. Every single transposal applied in the process of their selection is ...
... campaign expenses, but also meant nationwide outreach, and influenced the type of social groups that brought their electoral decisions not on the basis of rational considerations, but ties of faith. • An intensive process of clientele ...
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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 |