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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... liberal democracy began with the squeezing out of its language. This is the twilight of rational public discourse and dialogue, when an argumentative, intellectually consistent form of speech is replaced by a fragmented, narrative ...
... liberal democracy apart and also promotes the derationalization of public discourse. Since the results of the elections in postcommunist states affect conditions of all spheres of life much deeper than in the established western democracies ...
... liberal democracy established in the course of the transition. Their disparate socialization, values and social vision formed an obstacle to their realization of a common approachable, coherent socio-political program, which is why the ...
... Liberal democracy consciously developed the institutions guaranteeing checks and balances, and these can form a barrier to the surges of populist instincts. The way the individuals composing these institutions are selected is purposely ...
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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 |