The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes : : A Conceptual Framework / / Bálint Magyar, Bálint Madlovics.

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched
• VerfasserIn: Magyar, Bálint; Madlovics, Bálint
• TeilnehmendeR: Madlovics, Bálint
• Author: Knowledge Unlatched
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : Central European University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 p.)

"This book offers a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides concepts and theories to analyze the actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships. The work explores the structural foundations of post-communist regime development; the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the types of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize the institutions of public deliberation (media, elections, etc.); the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of "relational economy"; an analysis of China as "market-exploiting dictatorship"; the sociology of "clientage society"; the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism; and a six-regime framework for modeling regime trajectories. Written in textbook style, the book is suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to a website, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Reader's Manual for QR codes and Online Supplementary Material -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Stubborn Structures -- 2. State -- 3. Actors -- 4. Politics -- 5. Economy -- 6. Society -- 7. Regimes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index