Title The anatomy of post-communist regimes : a conceptual framework / Bálint Magyar, Bálint Madlovics

Published Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Reader's Manual for QR codes and Online Supplementary Material -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Stubborn Structures -- 2. State -- 3. Actors -- 4. Politics -- 5. Economy -- 6. Society -- 7. Regimes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "This book offers a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides concepts and theories to analyze the actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships. The work explores the structural foundations of post-communist regime development; the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the types of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize the institutions of public deliberation (media, elections, etc.); 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"; the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism; and a six-regime framework for modeling regime trajectories. Written in textbook style, the book is suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to a website, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching"-- Provided by publisher Analysis postcommunism, political systems, authoritarianism, mafia state, hybrid regimes, populism, Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern Post-communism -- China China -- Social conditions -- 21st century China -- Politics and government -- 21st century Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & Socialism. Political Science / Political Economy. Politics and government Post-communism Social conditions SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005642 Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000580 Subject China Eastern Europe Form Electronic book Author Madlovics, Bálint, 1993- author. LC no. 2020005184 ISBN 9633863708 9633863716 9789633863718 9789633863701

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