A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes : : Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics / / Bálint Madlovics, Bálint Magyar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Magyar, Bálint,; Madlovics, Bálint,
• MitwirkendeR: Fisun, Oleksandr,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Έτος έκδοσης: 2022
• Γλώσσα: English
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; FOREWORD A new paradigm for understanding post-communist regimes --; User’s guide to the book --; I. The Conceptual Framework: 120 Propositions --; 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 --; 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 --; II. Trajectories of Twelve Post-Communist Regimes --; 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 --; About the Authors
• Περίληψη: 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.
• Μορφή: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789633865880; 9783110780482; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994513; 9783110994407
• DOI: 10.1515/9789633865880?locatt=mode:legacy
• Πρόσβαση: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bálint Madlovics, Bálint Magyar.

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 t...