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Autore |
Magyar Bálint |
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Titolo |
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes : : A Conceptual Framework / / Bálint Magyar, Bálint Madlovics |
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[s.l.] : , : Central European University Press, , 2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Post-communism - Europe, Eastern |
Post-communism - China |
Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989- |
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Reader's Manual for QR codes and Online Supplementary Material -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Stubborn Structures -- 2. State -- 3. Actors -- 4. Politics -- 5. Economy -- 6. Society -- 7. Regimes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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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 |
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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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