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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... dictatorship. Nor does it have a place on the kind of corruption rankings normally produced by international organizations about the countries of the world, since these usually presume that different gradations of an identical quality ...
... dictatorship, which only carried a glazing of that official, apparatchik language dictated by the communist regime, which was taken less and less seriously. The language used by the liberal intelligentsia and anti-communist dissident ...
... dictatorship of the Kádár period was reincarnated: it set no store by the market mechanisms that raised efficiency, preferring the caretaker, distributive politics of the state. Their aversion to reforms was not merely based on a lack ...
... dictatorship and state monopoly on ownership) came down, unprecedented new forms of personal day-to-day vulnerability appeared as a consequence of the transition crisis. • Whole branches of industry dissolved with the loss of the ...
... dictatorship beginning in the mid-1960s, the bureaucratic-managerial performance of those working in the administration could have been said to be good in an East-European comparison. Public administration, as one of the fields ...
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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 |