A concise field guide to post-communist regimes : actors, institutions, and dynamics / Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magyar, Bálint, 1952- author.

Madlovics, Bálint, 1993- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism.

Post-communism--China.

Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary : Central European University Press, [2022]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71799-3

963-386-588-3

9781003717997

OCLC:

1336012786