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Party-States and their Legacies in Post-Communist Transformation is
a unique investigation into the construction, operation,
self-destruction and transition of Hungarian politics from the
1960s to the mid- 1990s. It presents a rich picture which draws
upon an extraordinary body of data and provides not just simply a
retrospective theoretical analysis of the system, but details of
everyday life within the state apparatus. This remarkable book
includes extensive interviews with over four hundred key
individuals in the party, state and the economy from 1975 onwards.
In addition, Dr Csanadi draws upon other unique empirical research
including internal memos and secret state documents as well as a
full range of studies by East and West European scholars to reveal
the realities of the system as observed by those closest to it. She
not only considers the workings of the system during the communist
era, but also analyses the legacy it continues to exert on the
period of the transformation. As such the book contributes to our
understanding of the Hungarian transformation and sheds new light
on how party states worked throughout Eastern and Central Europe
during the communist era and what the consequences of their
self-similar features on the transformation are. In addition the
book offers comparisons with other formerly centrally planned
systems to reveal the structural differences in the distribution of
power in party states and the very different legacies they leave
for post-communist transformation. This comprehensive book will be
welcomed by researchers, academics and postgraduates interested in
the politics, economics, history and political science of Hungary
and other East and Central European countries in transition.
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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