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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... rule to Fidesz. In the end, Fidesz was able to win another term in office with 66% of the seats in the parliament, even though the party won less than 44% of the vote. The drop in Fidesz's vote totals was made up for in significant part ...
... rule of law be undermined in Hungary. In conclusion, the [constitutional change] . . . endangers the constitutional system of checks and balances. . . . [It] is the result of an instrumental view of the Constitution as a political means ...
... rules are established and legislation as well. In such cases it is difficult to draw a clear line between legitimate lobbying and the advance of the organized underworld involving bribery and blackmail. Its actions are based not ...
... rule of law when its representatives gain political power. In spite of officials and politicians—even in vast numbers—who can be bought, the faith that the state is at war with the mafia can remain unbroken. In other words some ...
... rule of law grounded in Germany by the Grundgesetz (the Basic Law of Bonn), and well tried in the following by a row ... rules to adapt to the competition of the world market than it was for other citizens of Central Europe. All at once ...
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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 |