1st Edition
Stubborn Structures Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes
By Bálint Magyar
Copyright 2019
712 Pages
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Central European University Press
The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Rather than on the surface structures of nominal democracies, the nineteen essays focus on the informal, often intentionally hidden, disguised and illicit understandings and arrangements that penetrate formal institutions. These phenomena often... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, Editor’s Preface, I. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS Henry E. Hale: Freeing Post-Soviet Regimes from the Procrustean Bed of Democracy Theory, János Kornai: The System Paradigm Revisited: Clarification and Additions in the Light Of Experiences in the Post-Communist Region, Oleksandr Fisun: Neopatrimonialism in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Bálint Magyar: Towards a Terminology for Post-communist Regimes, II. ACTORS OF POWER Nikolay Petrov: Putin’s Neo-Nomenklatura System and its Evolution, Mikhail Minakov: Republic of Clans: The Evolution of the Ukrainian Political System, Uladzimir Rouda: Is Belarus a Classic Post-Communist Mafia State?, László Nándor Magyari: The Romanian Patronal System of Public Corruption, III. TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS Zoltán Sz. Bíró: The Russian Party System, Andrei Kazakevich: The Belarusian Non-Party Political System: Government, Trust and Institutions, 1990–2015, Miklós Haraszti: Illiberal State Censorship: A Must-have Accessory for Any Mafia State, Dumitru Minzarari: Disarming Public Protests in Russia: Transforming Public Goods into Private Goods, IV. WEALTH AND OWNERSHIP Andrey Ryabov: The Institution of Power & Ownership in the Former USSR: Origin, Diversity of Forms, and Influence on Transformation Processes, Ilja Viktorov: Russia’s Network State and Reiderstvo Practices: The Roots to Weak Property Rights Protection after the post-Communist Transition, Bálint Magyar: From Free Market Corruption Risk to the Certainty of a State-Run Criminal Organization (using Hungary as an example) V. CONTRASTS AND CONNECTIONS, Alexei Pikulik: Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine as Post-Soviet Rent[1]Seeking Regimes, Sarah Chayes: The Structure of Corruption: A Systemic Analysis, Kálmán Mizsei: The New East European Patronal States and the Rule-of-Law, Bálint Magyar: Parallel System Narratives—Polish and Hungarian Regime Formations Compared, List of Contributors , Index.
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.
Henry E. Hale is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
