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Central European University Press
In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law. At that time, many readers doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, whose key categories were the 'organized over-world', the 'state employing mafia methods' and the 'adopted political family'. Critics considered these... Read more
1. The system we live under, 2. The disintegration of the Third Hungarian Republic in 2010, 3. Approaches of interpretation: from the functional disorders of democracy to a critique of the system, 4. Definition of the post-communist mafia state, 5. Specific features of the mafia state: a subtype of autocratic regimes
Biography
Bálint Magyar is Research Fellow at CEU Democracy Institute, working on the subject of patronalism in post-communist countries.
He was a member of the Hungarian Parliament (1990-2010). As a Minister of Education (1996-1998; 2002-2006) he initiated and carried out reforms in public and higher education.
