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This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates
the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and
populism. Six scholars from various professional fields explore
here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized
authoritarian system. Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party needed less
than ten years to accomplish this transformation in Hungary. In
2010, after winning a majority that could make changes in the
constitution - two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, they evolved
and stabilized the system, which produced again the two-thirds
majority in 2014 and 2018. The authors reveal how a democratic
setting can be used as a device for political capture. They show
how a political entity managed to penetrate almost all sub-fields
of the economy to arrive at institutionalized corruption, and how
the centralized power structure reproduces itself. With the help of
a powerful empirical apparatus-among others analyses of more than
220,000 public tenders, redistributions of state subsidies, and the
interconnectedness of those privileged with the political elite -
the authors detail the functioning of a crony system and the
network aspects of political connections in the rapid enrichment of
politically-linked businesses. Their studies demonstrate the role
of political capture in this redistribution and how this capture
leads to a new social stratification.
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