A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics Magyar Blint
A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics Magyar Blint While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must…
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A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics Magyar Blint
While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western democracies. In 120 theses they unfold a conceptual framework with (1) a typology of post-communist regimes and (2) a detailed presentation of ideal-type actors and the political, economic, and social phenomena in these regimes. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar tailored to the specifics of the region.
The book is a more digestible companion to the 800-page The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020), which was a detailed theoretical study with plenty of empirical illustrations.Each of the 120 theses contains a statement and its concise discussion supported by illustrative tables, figures, and QR-codes that connect the interested reader to the more