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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... social model otherwise based on consensus—but the bitter battles of a war to secure property and the new positions generating wealth. The eastern patterns of nepotism emerging in this battle—escalated by the political elite and causing ...
... social market economy and rule of law grounded in Germany by the Grundgesetz (the Basic Law of Bonn), and well tried in the following by a row of nations. Then, having developed the new Hungarian model of progress based on our own ...
... social integration is possible without linguistic integration grounded in a general consensus on public discourse. By the 1980s, a secular, rational, western discourse had developed under the conditions of the soft communist ...
... social polarization. This brought into being the multilingual nation incapable of dialogue between value systems. When the two languages serving disparate functions have become the languages of two political camps, the political ...
... social challenges. The economic crises—that had first led up to and become apparent through the regime change, later to return in the crash of 2008—was not Hungary's only affliction, it had also run into the pitfall of populism. A ...
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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 |