1st Edition

The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes A Conceptual Framework

By Bálint Magyar, Bálint Madlovics Copyright 2021
834 Pages
by Central European University Press

834 Pages
by Central European University Press

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist... Read more
List of Tables and Figures, Acknowledgments, Reader's Manual for QR Codes and Online Supplementary Material, Preface by Alena Ledeneva, Introduction, 1. Stubborn Structures, 2. State, 3. Actors, 4. Politics, 5. Economy, 6. Society, 7. Regimes, Conclusion, Bibliography, 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.

Bálint Madlovics (*1993) is a political scientist and economist. He is a junior research fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute. He holds MA in Political Science (2018) from Central European University in Budapest, and BA in Applied Economics (2016) from Corvinus University of Budapest.