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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... force is also able to form its own oligopolistic mechanism for coerced corruption with which to pressure actors in the private economy. In this phase the players of the economy and politics seek each other out along established paths ...
... forces a significant number of those renting such premises by means of a variety of violent means at its disposal, to sell or handover their right to rent, so that after the fact, in collusion with the local government officials they ...
... force that seizes hold over the local authorities, but the public administrative office itself that acts like the mafia through the tools of public administration and enforcement at its disposal. The systemic corruption of the mafia ...
... from the structural and mental state of Hungarian society that a right-wing political force on the offensive could prey on. Nonetheless, the unfortunate simultaneity 2. The disintegration of the Third Hungarian Republic in 2010.
... force the political sides once engaged in a life and death struggle into peaceful competition based on periodic elections. This was the first time the loser had to acknowledge that its opponent was forming government on legitimate ...
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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 |