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...

The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression in the Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms and concepts employed for western democracies for describing,...

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...