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The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes : A Conceptual Framework
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political science
political economy
sociology
J Political Science
HM Sociology
political economy
sociology
J Political Science
HM Sociology
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27750
Abstract
Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this 800-page book 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 regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes.
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Book
Date
2020
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978-963-386-371-8
978-963-386-370-1
978-963-386-370-1