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“This ambitious book provides not only a better vocabulary, but a whole new grammar for describing the political regimes that emerged in communism’s wake.” 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 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 phenomen

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Author

Bálint Magyar; Bálint Madlovics; Knowledge Unlatched

Publisher

Central European University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9789633863701

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, History, Political Science