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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... electoral rejection of constitutional liberalism, the political ideology. Liberals now have few friends throughout the former Soviet world. Before 2010, however, Hungary muddled along in a condition that xviii POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE.
... post-communist mafia state. It is post-communist because the opportunities for corruption were legion as the former state socialist countries rapidly privatized huge swaths of the economy in the 1990s without a regulatory regime in ...
... mafia-like organization goes from underworld to “upperworld” and controls ... post-communist mafia state has a legal twist: Viktor Orbán and his circle of ... After the constitution came into force in January 2012, it was then amended ...
... communism understood that the circle around a dissident person could be held hostage to leverage compliance of the dissident. Orbán's Hungary has witnessed a return of hostage-taking, as those who have been ... POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE.
... Postcommunist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). “These measures amount to a threat for constitutional justice and for the 2 supremacy of the basic principles contained in the Fundamental ... POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE.
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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 |