General Information

Author/Creator

Magyar, Bálint, 1952- author.

Language

English.

Published

Budapest ; Vienna ; New York : Central European University Press, 2022.

Physical Description

251 p. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Madlovics, Bálint, 1993- (author.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western democracies. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar tailored to the specifics of the region. In 120 theses they unfold a conceptual framework with (1) a typology of post-communist regimes and (2) a detailed presentation of ideal-type actors and the political, economic, and social phenomena in these regimes. The book is a more digestible companion to the 800-page The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020), which was a detailed theoretical study with plenty of empirical illustrations. Each of the 120 theses contains a statement and its concise discussion supported by illustrative tables, figures, and QR-codes that connect the interested reader to the more detailed analysis in the Anatomy. In a condensed variety, this book has kept the holistic approach of the Anatomy and treats the spheres of political, market, and communal action as parts of a single, coherent whole. The endeavor to synthesize a vast range of ideas does not, however, result in a too complicated text. On the contrary, freed from the implicit presumptions of democracy theory, the new terminology yields a readily usable toolkit of unambiguous means of expression to speak about post-communism"--

Subjects

Subject

Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism > China.

Europe, Eastern > Social conditions > 1989-

Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-

China > Social conditions > 2000-

China > Politics and government > 21st century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Bálint Magyar, Bálint Madlovics.

Content

Trapped in the language of liberal democracy -- Dissolving axiom #1 : stubborn structures and the region's development -- Dissolving axiom #2 : formality and informality -- Dissolving axiom #3 : from constitutional state to the mafia state -- A sui generis phenomenon : the adopted political family -- The formal institutional setting : changing patterns of legitimacy -- Legislation and the legal system : from the rule of law to the law of rule -- Defensive mechanisms : stability and erosion of democracies and autocracies -- Relational economics : corruption, predation, and the redistribution of markets -- In a relational economy, property rights have. (need a proper address instead) -- Market-exploiting dictatorship : coexistence of the three economic mechanisms in China -- Clientage society and the social stability of patronal autocracy -- Populism : an ideological instrument for the political program of morally unconstrained collective egoism -- Beyond regime specificities : country-, policy-, and era-specific features -- Post-communist regime trajectories : a triangular framework -- Estonia : regime change to liberal democracy -- Romania : regime change to patronal democracy -- Kazakhstan : regime change to patronal autocracy -- China : model change to market-exploiting dictatorship -- Czech Republic : backsliding toward patronal democracy -- Poland : backsliding toward conservative autocracy -- Hungary : backsliding to patronal autocracy from liberal democracy -- Russia : backsliding to patronal autocracy from oligarchic anarchy -- Ukraine : regime cycles with color revolutions -- North Macedonia : regime cycle with intra-elite conflict -- Moldova : regime cycles with foreign interference -- Georgia : an attempt to break the regime cycle.

ISBN

9789633865873

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	306.0947 MAG		Reference	-

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