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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... society—from the reception desk to the party chairs— rather evenly. At virtually all points of economic contact across the shortage economy that accompanied state monopoly, individuals would find themselves equipped with some stock ...
... the structural and mental state of Hungarian society that a right-wing political force on the offensive could prey on. Nonetheless, the unfortunate simultaneity 2. The disintegration of the Third Hungarian Republic in 2010.
... society “In 1989 it may still have seemed as if” Péter Tölgyessy2 writes “all we Hungarians had to do would be to follow the practices of building a social market economy and rule of law grounded in Germany by the Grundgesetz (the Basic ...
... society falls far even from the periphery of the West. The study shows that the otherwise secularized Hungary is pushed a long way into the East by a closed way of thinking: Hungarian citizens are only characterized by a commitment to ...
... society, with its stridently eastern character. This is the period of illusions, of disappointments in political perceptions. The language of the fallen regime was worn away. The socialists do not have a language of their own even today ...
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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 |