Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State

The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twenty-five angles. Topics discussed include the ideology, constitutional issues, social policy, the judiciary, foreign relations, nationalism, media, memory politics, corruption, civil society, education, culture and so on. Beyond the basic features of the economy the domains of taxation, banking system, energy policies and the agricu.

Cover ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Balázs Trencsényi: What Should I Call You? The Crisis of Hungarian Democracy in a Regional Interpretative Framework; 2. György Csepeli: The Ideological Patchwork of the Mafia State; 3. Imre Vörös: A "Constitutional" Coup in Hungary between2010-2014; 4. Zoltán Fleck: Law under the Mafia State; 5. Bálint Magyar: The Post-Communist Mafia State as a Form of Criminal State; 6. András Becker: The Circulation of Oligarchs; 7. Dávid Jancsics: From Local Cliques to Mafia State: The Evolution of Network Corruption.

8. Zoltán Lakner: Links in the Chain: Patron-Client Relations in the Mafia State9. Balázs Krémer: The Social Policy of the Mafia State and Its Impact on Social Structure; 10. László Békesi: The Economic Policy of the Mafia State; 11. Károly Attila Soós: Tributes Paid through Special Taxes: Populismand the Displacement of "Aliens"; 12. István Csillag: Getting Rich as Mission: Swapping Elites on a Family Basis; 13. Éva Várhegyi: The Banks of the Mafia State; 14. Iván Major: Utility Price Cuts and Sector-Specific Taxes in Network Industries.

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