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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... fact the relationship is turned around in both cases. It is not, after all, the party financing needs that generate the illegitimate resources which are then pocketed: meaning that the potential of a party in decision-making is not ...
... fact, in collusion with the local government officials they can buy them at the discount price at which they are sold to the rent holders, this belongs in the second evolutionary phase of corruption. In this set up however, those ...
... fact what unfolded in Hungary was not necessarily its fate. 2.1. The value system of the Hungarian society “In 1989 it may still have seemed as if” Péter Tölgyessy2 writes “all we Hungarians had to do would be to follow the practices of ...
... fact already overpowered the constitutional framework. According to the right-wing mythologem the left-wing government showed its true colors as a police state. According to the left-wing mythologem, the right-wing opposition had showed ...
... fact that barely one and a half million of the nearly eight million citizens eligible to vote in Hungary paid eighty percent of the state's revenues from personal income tax. The main question of the three parliamentary elections ...
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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 |