The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Rather than on the surface structures of nominal democracies, the nineteen essays focus on the informal, often intentionally hidden, disguised and illicit understandings and arrangements that penetrate formal institutions. These phenomena often escape even the best-trained outside observers, familiar with the concepts of established democracies. Contributors to this book share the view that understanding post-communist politics is best served by a framework that builds from the ground up, proceeding from a fundamental social context. The book aims at facilitating a lexical convergence; in the absence of a robust vocabulary for describing and discussing these often highly complex informal phenomena, the authors wish to advance a new terminology of post-communist regimes. Instead of a finite dictionary, a kind of conceptual cornucopia is offered. The resulting variety reflects a larger harmony of purpose that can significantly expand the understanding the “real politics” of post-communist regimes. Countries analyzed from a variety of aspects, comparatively or as single case studies, include Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine.
- 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
- Mikhail Minakov: Republic of Clans: The Evolution of the Ukrainian Political System
- Uladzimir 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
- IV. WEALTH AND OWNERSHIP
- Andrey 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
- Sarah Chayes: The Structure of Corruption: A Systemic Analysis
- Kálmán 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
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