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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... established by law and the narrowly defined circle of campaign events. This resulted in the escalation of campaign expenditures and made the enforcement of accountability impossible. To add to all of this, the State Court of Auditors ...
... establish their own business ventures to generate income, but pressed businesses for allowances and contributions ... established and legislation as well. In such cases it is difficult to draw a clear line between legitimate lobbying ...
... in the private economy. In this phase the players of the economy and politics seek each other out along established paths, mutually. • On the third evolutionary level the mafia state (the 10 POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE.
... establishing its mafia type culture and influence by means of the whole arsenal of the powers of the state. During the first period of Fidesz government from 1998–2002, the progress of this model had tough institutional constraints ...
... established during the regime change. Of course, it makes sense to ask why in the struggle between the western institutional system and eastern cultural patterns the latter came out victorious. In order to explain the disintegration and ...
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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 |