A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes : : Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics /

A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes : : Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics / / Bálint Madlovics, Bálint Magyar.

While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western democracies. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar tailored to the specifics of the region. In 120 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022
VerfasserIn:
Magyar, Bálint,
Madlovics, Bálint,
MitwirkendeR:
Fisun, Oleksandr,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • FOREWORD A new paradigm for understanding post-communist regimes
  • User’s guide to the book
  • I. The Conceptual Framework: 120 Propositions
  • Trapped in the Language of Liberal Democracy
  • Dissolving Axiom #1: Stubborn Structures and the Region’s Development
  • Dissolving Axiom #2: Formality and Informality
  • Dissolving Axiom #3: From Constitutional State to the Mafia State
  • A Sui Generis Phenomenon: the Adopted Political Family
  • The Formal Institutional Setting: Changing Patterns of Legitimacy
  • Legislation and the Legal System: From the Rule of Law to the Law of Rule
  • Defensive Mechanisms: Stability and Erosion of Democracies and Autocracies
  • Relational Economics: Corruption, Predation, and the Redistribution of Markets
  • Market-Exploiting Dictatorship: Coexistence of the Three Economic Mechanisms in China
  • Clientage Society and the Social Stability of Patronal Autocracy
  • Populism: an Ideological Instrument for the Political Program of Morally Unconstrained Collective Egoism
  • Beyond Regime Specificities: Country-, Policy-, and Era-Specific Features
  • Post-Communist Regime Trajectories: A Triangular Framework
  • II. Trajectories of Twelve Post-Communist Regimes
  • Estonia: Regime Change to Liberal Democracy
  • Romania: Regime Change to Patronal Democracy
  • Kazakhstan: Regime Change to Patronal Autocracy
  • China: Model Change to Market- Exploiting Dictatorship
  • Czech Republic: Backsliding Toward Patronal Democracy
  • Poland: Backsliding Toward Conservative Autocracy
  • Hungary: Backsliding to Patronal Autocracy from Liberal Democracy
  • Russia: Backsliding to Patronal Autocracy from Oligarchic Anarchy
  • Ukraine: Regime Cycles with Color Revolutions
  • North Macedonia: Regime Cycle with Intra-Elite Conflict
  • Moldova: Regime Cycles with Foreign Interference
  • Georgia: An Attempt to Break the Regime Cycle
  • Notes
  • About the Authors

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