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Post-Communist Mafia State - The Case of Hungary (Paperback)
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Post-Communist Mafia State - The Case of Hungary (Paperback)
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In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way the Hungarian
political party Fidesz (the Federation of Young Democrats) was
eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law as it was
on government for the first time. At that time, many readers
doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, in which the author
characterized the system as the 'organized over-world', the 'state
employing mafia methods' and the 'adopted political family'.
Critics considered these categories metaphors rather than elements
of a coherent conceptual framework. Ten years later Fidesz won a
two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, removing
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. It is common in many post-communist systems that a
segment of the party and secret service became the elite in
possession of not only political power but also of wealth. However,
Fidesz, as a late-coming new political predator, was able to occupy
this position through a change of elite. 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.
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