Stubborn Structures : : Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes /

Stubborn Structures : : Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes / / ed. by Bálint Magyar.

The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Rather than on the surface structures of nominal democracies, the nineteen essays focus on the informal, often intentionally hidden, disguised and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Bíró, Zoltán Sz.,
Chayes, Sarah,
Fisun, Oleksandr,
Hale, Henry E.,
Haraszti, Miklós,
Kazakevich, Andrei,
Kornai, János,
Magyar, Bálint,
Magyari, László Nándor,
Minakov, Mikhail,
Minzarari, Dumitru,
Mizsei, Kálmán,
Petrov, Nikolay,
Pikulik, Alexei,
Rouda, Uladzimir,
Ryabov, Andrey,
Viktorov, Ilja,
HerausgeberIn:
Magyar, Bálint,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (712 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Editor’s Preface
  • I. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
  • Introduction: Freeing Post-Soviet Regimes from the Procrustean Bed of Democracy Theory
  • The System Paradigm Revisited: Clarification and Additions in the Light of Experiences in the Post-Socialist Region
  • Neopatrimonialism in post-Soviet Eurasia
  • Towards a terminology for postcommunist regimes
  • II. ACTORS OF POWER
  • Putin’s neo-nomenklatura system and its evolution
  • Republic of Clans: The evolution of the Ukrainian political system
  • Is Belarus a Classic Post-Communist Mafia State?
  • The Romanian Patronal System of Public Corruption
  • III. TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS
  • The Russian Party System
  • The Belarusian non-party political system: Government, trust and institutions, 1990–2015
  • Illiberal State Censorship: A Must-have Accessory for Any Mafia State
  • Disarming Public Protests in Russia: Transforming Public Goods into Private Goods
  • IV. WEALTH AND OWNERSHIP
  • The Institution of Power&Ownership in the Former USSR: Origin, Diversity of Forms, and Influence on Transformation Processes
  • Russia’s Network State and Reiderstvo Practices: The Roots to Weak Property Rights Protection after the post-Communist Transition
  • From Free Market Corruption Risk to the Certainty of a State-Run Criminal Organization (using Hungary as an example)
  • V. CONTRASTS AND CONNECTIONS
  • Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine as Post- Soviet Rent-Seeking Regimes
  • The Structure of Corruption: A Systemic Analysis
  • The new East European patronal states and the rule-of-law
  • Parallel System Narratives—Polish and Hungarian regime formations compared A structuralist essay
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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