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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... monopolies making up the oligopolistic provinces of the underworld mafia groups (organized underworld), enforced through never-ending wars and liquidations. This simply mirrored in the sphere of the public authorities when a ...
... monopoly on power and the elimination of a separation of the powers of state could not be brought to pass. Since 2010 however—with this barrier gone—the entrenchment of the mafia state has been carried out at the highest possible ...
... monopolies on any form of ideology, and following the regime change the socialists could also not have hoped that the ideology that they represented could find its way into a monopolistic position secured by the state. Under the terms ...
... monopoly: social demagogy. 2.5.3. The shoddiness of freedom and hopelessness of the dispossessed At the time of the collapse of the communist system a significant proportion of society expected that upon adopting a western type ...
... monopolies, the administration and affiliated offices (such as the elite research centers, background institutions of ministries) attracted talent, by the 2000s young people could choose from plenty of career opportunities unconnected ...
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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 |