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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... legitimate grounds. [...] This external pressure was meant to get translated into an internal stimulus. It was only to be expected that the constitutional guarantees of rights to political freedom would help unspoken grievances rise to ...
... legitimacy of the conflicting mythologems within the opposed camps was not determined by the extent to which they were justified or baseless, or whether they were honest sentiments of their leaders or mere sham. It is a fact however ...
... legitimacy of newly acquired property was weak, especially when it was acquired through state largess. For those, on the other hand, who were directly affected by unemployment or fear of unemployment in the aftermath of the regime ...
... legitimacy of the governments between 2002 and 2010; they used the institutions of power under their control to constrain the government, and kept it under siege with nationalist and social populism. They were successful. The temptation ...
... legitimacy of their relationship with their electorate, the socialists followed (with exception perhaps for their approach to the issues of freedom rights, democratic establishment, and market economy) the usual pattern for communist ...
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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 |