This paper measures social mobility rates in Hungary 1949-2017, for upper class and underclass families, using surnames to measure social status. In these years there were two very different social regimes. The first was the Hungarian People’s Republic, 1949-1989, a Communist regime with an...

The system we live under -- The disintegration of the third Hungarian republic in 2010 -- Approaches of interpretation : from the functional disorders of democracy to a critique of the system -- Definition of the post-communist mafia state -- Specific features of the mafia state : a subtype of...