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1 online resource |
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Cover; title page; copyright page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Editor's Preface; I. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; Henry E. Hale: Freeing Post-Soviet Regimes from the Procrustean Bed of Democracy Theory; János Kornai: The System Paradigm Revisited: Clarification and Additions in the Light Of Experiences in the Post-Communist Region; Oleksandr Fisun: Neopatrimonialism in Post-Soviet Eurasia; Bálint Magyar: Towards a Terminology for Post-communist Regimes; II. ACTORS OF POWER; Nikolay Petrov: Putin's Neo-Nomenklatura System and its Evolution |
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Mikhail Minakov: Republic of Clans: The Evolution of the Ukrainian Political SystemUladzimir Rouda: Is Belarus a Classic Post-Communist Mafia State?; László Nándor Magyari: The Romanian Patronal System of Public Corruption; III. TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS; Zoltán Sz. Bíró: The Russian Party System; Andrei Kazakevich: The Belarusian Non-Party Political System: Government, Trust and Institutions, 1990-2015; Miklós Haraszti: Illiberal State Censorship: A Must-have Accessory for Any Mafia State; Dumitru Minzarari: Disarming Public Protests in Russia: Transforming Public Goods into Private Goods |
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IV. WEALTH AND OWNERSHIPAndrey Ryabov: The Institution of Power & Ownership in the Former USSR: Origin, Diversity of Forms, and Influence on Transformation Processes; Ilja Viktorov: Russia's Network State and Reiderstvo Practices: The Roots to Weak Property Rights Protection after the post-Communist Transition; Bálint Magyar: From Free Market Corruption Risk to the Certainty of a State-Run Criminal Organization (using Hungary as an example); V. CONTRASTS AND CONNECTIONS; Alexei Pikulik: Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine as Post-Soviet Rent-Seeking Regimes |
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Sarah Chayes: The Structure of Corruption: A Systemic AnalysisKálmán Mizsei: The New East European Patronal States and the Rule-of-Law; Bálint Magyar: Parallel System Narratives-Polish and Hungarian Regime Formations Compared; List of Contributors; Index; Gallery; Back cover |
| Summary |
The present volume represents a major step forward in the effort to understand post-communist politics in ways that escape the procrustean bed of theory oriented primarily to the democratization research agenda |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 30, 2019) |
| Subject |
Post-communism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
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Politics and government
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Post-communism
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| SUBJECT |
Former communist countries -- Politics and government
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Former communist countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Magyar, Bálint, 1952- editor.
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| ISBN |
9633862159 |
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9789633862155 |
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