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| Other authors / contributors: | Gerő, Márton, author.
Hajdú, Miklós, author.
Kovách, Imre, author.
Laki, Mihály, author.
Tóth, István János, author.
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| ISBN: | 9789633865774
9633865778
9789633865781
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Summary: | "This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Six scholars from various professional fields explore here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized authoritarian system. Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party needed less than ten years to accomplish this transformation in Hungary. In 2010, after winning a majority that could make changes in the constitution - two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, they evolved and stabilized the system, which produced again the two-thirds majority in 2014 and 2018. The authors reveal how a democratic setting can be used as a device for political capture. They show how a political entity managed to penetrate almost all sub-fields of the economy to arrive at institutionalized corruption, and how the centralized power structure reproduces itself. With the help of a powerful empirical apparatus-among others analyses of more than 220,000 public tenders, redistributions of state subsidies, and the interconnectedness of those privileged with the political elite - the authors detail the functioning of a crony system and the network aspects of political connections in the rapid enrichment of politically-linked businesses. Their studies demonstrate the role of political capture in this redistribution and how this capture leads to a new social stratification"--
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| Other form: | Online version: Csanádi, Maria. Dynamics of an authoritarian system New York : Central European University Press, 2022 9789633865781
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