The anatomy of post-communist regimes a conceptual framework / B©Łlint Magyar, B©Łlint Madlovics.
| Author/creator | Magyar, B©Łlint, 1952- |
| Other author | Madlovics, B©Łlint, 1993- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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| Issued in other form | Print version: Magyar, B©Łlint, 1952- The anatomy of post-communist regimes Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2020. 9789633863718 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020005184 |
| ISBN | 9789633863701 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |