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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... means to acquire property, or loans that never had to be repaid, and an array of other advantages. Nevertheless, irrespective of the endless incidences of such corruption, it never coalesced to become a force structuring the system. An ...
... means of threats and violence: blackmail and protection money, as well as oversight of branches of business promising great returns. While attempting to monopolize a given area of illegitimate economic activity, in geographic terms and ...
... 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 can buy them at the discount price at which they are sold to the ...
... means of the whole arsenal of the powers of the state. During the first period of Fidesz government from 1998–2002, the progress of this model had tough institutional constraints. Though the democratic institutional system had been ...
... means of its indicative, enunciative, labeling and stigmatizing tools it forms an identity symbolically and emotionally. By these means this language was capable of reflecting on the visual, ritual, and emotional world of the ideology ...
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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 |