The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes : A Conceptual Framework /

Magyar, Bálint, 1952-

The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes : A Conceptual Framework / Bálint Magyar, Bálint Madlovics. - 1 online resource (834 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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"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"--

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Social conditions.
Post-communism.
Politics and government.
Political Science / Political Economy.
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & Socialism.
Postcommunisme--Chine.
Postcommunisme--Europe de l'Est.
China--Politics and government--21st century.
China--Social conditions--21st century.
Post-communism--China.
Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.


Eastern Europe.
China.
Europe de l'Est--Politique et gouvernement--1989-
Europe de l'Est--Conditions sociales--1989-
Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-
Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989-


Electronic books.

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