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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... ideological patterns. It was nevertheless easy to brand them as commies. (Though in the given financial and market conditions a significant majority of the companies did not have a chance of survival without a competent management.) Yet ...
... ideology for why property should be taken away from certain people and given to others was always ready at hand. It was self-evident to the liberal elite with a background and knowledge in sociology and history that the first generation ...
... ideological terms, but were certainly embedded in the earlier regime after having acknowledged its premises. This ... ideology of the “stolen regime change,” while the elite that had handled the dismantling of state-owned property were ...
... ideological props of memories from the past (God, motherland, family), to provide points of fixture for people who ... ideology, and following the regime change the socialists could also not have hoped that the ideology that they ...
... ideological bias of this use of the traditional national symbols. The liberals were also insensitive to the political use of symbols. Having been socialized under a totalitarian regime, the anti-communist dissident movement was wary 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 |