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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... 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 fully liberal, in ...
... economic transition created both the preconditions and the model for the current state. As Magyar argues, the new political logic through which these economic transfers now occur is also mafia-like. A mafia is an underworld corrupt ...
... economic dealings, or simply bothered them, helped to chill criticism. And then there was hostage-taking. Not literally, of course. But in the communist period, the government threatened family members, lovers and friends when a ...
... economic rather than ideological. But ideology provided a cover for the sheer venality of the governing party. With its “national middle class” (Fidesz voters), its “system of national cooperation” (the party program) and its ethnic ...
... economy. This model, established by the western democracies, is called liberal democracy, whether presidential or ... economic sphere, guarantees for the preeminence of private property, clean market competition, and security of ...
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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 |