Dynamics of an Authoritarian System : Hungary, 2010-2021 Hardback
by Maria (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary) Csanadi, Marton (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary) Gero, Miklos (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) Hajdu, Imre (University of Debrecen, Hungary) Kovach, Istvan Janos (Senior research fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Corruption Research Cente Toth, Mihaly (Scientific advisor, emeritus, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Laki
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This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism.
Six scholars from various professional fields explore here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized authoritarian system.
Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party needed less than ten years to accomplish this transformation in Hungary.
In 2010, after winning a majority that could make changes in the constitution – two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, they evolved and stabilized the system, which produced again the two-thirds majority in 2014 and 2018.
The authors reveal how a democratic setting can be used as a device for political capture.
They show how a political entity managed to penetrate almost all sub-fields of the economy to arrive at institutionalized corruption, and how the centralized power structure reproduces itself.
With the help of a powerful empirical apparatus—among others analyses of more than 220,000 public tenders, redistributions of state subsidies, and the interconnectedness of those privileged with the political elite — the authors detail the functioning of a crony system and the network aspects of political connections in the rapid enrichment of politically-linked businesses.
Their studies demonstrate the role of political capture in this redistribution and how this capture leads to a new social stratification.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:375 pages, 21 Tables, black and white; 31 Figures
- Publisher:Central European University Press
- Publication Date:10/08/2022
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- ISBN:9789633865774
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:375 pages, 21 Tables, black and white; 31 Figures
- Publisher:Central European University Press
- Publication Date:10/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9789633865774
