Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State /

Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State / / ed. by Julia Vasarhelyi, Bálint Magyar.

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The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twenty-five angles. Topics discussed...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Andor, Mihály,
Ara-Kovács, Attila,
Becker, András,
Bozóki, András,
Békesi, László,
Csepeli, György,
Csillag, István,
Deák, András,
Fleck, Zoltán,
Gábor, György,
Jancsics, Dávid,
Juhász, Pál,
Kozák, Márton,
Krémer, Balázs,
Lakner, Zoltán,
Magyar, Bálint,
Major, Iván,
Nagy, Ádám C.,
Ripp, Zoltán,
Soós, Károly Attila,
Szelényi, Iván,
Trencsényi, Balázs,
Ungváry, Krisztián,
Várhegyi, Éva,
Vásárhelyi, Mária,
Vörös, Imre,
HerausgeberIn:
Magyar, Bálint,
Vasarhelyi, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (674 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • I
  • What Should I Call You? The Crisis of Hungarian Democracy in a Regional Interpretative Framework
  • The Ideological Patchwork of the Mafia State
  • A “Constitutional” Coup in Hungary between 2010–2014
  • Law under the Mafia State
  • The Post-communist Mafia State as a Form of Criminal State
  • The Circulation of Oligarchs
  • From Local Cliques to Mafia State: The Evolution of Network Corruption
  • Links in the Chain: Patron-Client Relations in the Mafia State
  • The Social Policy of the Mafia State and Its Impact on Social Structure
  • II
  • The Economic Policy of the Mafia State
  • Tributes Paid through Special Taxes: Populism and the Displacement of “Aliens”
  • Getting Rich as Mission: Swapping Elites on a Family Basis
  • The Banks of the Mafia State
  • Utility Price Cuts and Sector-Specific Taxes in Network Industries
  • Captured by Power: The Expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant
  • Controlled Competition in the Agriculture
  • III
  • Western Social Development with an Eastern Set of Values?
  • “One Camp, One Banner”: How Fidesz Views History
  • The Land of an Appropriated God: Sacred Political Symbols and Symbolic Political Sacrality
  • Nationalism and Hegemony: Symbolic Politics and Colonization of Culture
  • The Workings of the Media: A Brainwashing and Money-Laundering Mechanism
  • Restoring Servility in the Educational Policy
  • The Taming of Civil Society
  • The Opposition to the Mafia State
  • Diplomacy of the Orbán Regime
  • Epilogue
  • Capitalism After Communism
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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