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Title

  • The anatomy of post-communist regimes : a conceptual framework

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.

Names

  • Magyar, Bálint, 1952- author
  • Madlovics, Bálint, 1993- author

Created / Published

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

Headings

  • -  China--Politics and government--21st century
  • -  China--Social conditions--21st century
  • -  Post-communism--China
  • -  Post-communism--Europe, Eastern
  • -  Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989
  • -  Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HN380.7.A8

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020005184

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Magyar, Bálint, Author, and Bálint Madlovics. The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework. Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY: Central European University Press, 2020. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020005184/.

APA citation style:

Magyar, B. & Madlovics, B. (2020) The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework. Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY: Central European University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020005184/.

MLA citation style:

Magyar, Bálint, Author, and Bálint Madlovics. The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework. Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY: Central European University Press, 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020005184/>.