Bálint Magyar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1542229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bálint Magyar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bálint |
| FAMILY NAME | Magyar |
| SIGNATURE | MAGYAR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Financial Research (Hungary) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3857-6254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law. At that time, many readers doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, whose key categories were the 'organized over-world', the 'state employing mafia methods' and the 'adopted political family'. Critics considered these categories metaphors rather than elements of a coherent conc…
Postkommunistische Regime: Akteure, Institutionen und Dynamiken
A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
EN: The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against 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, understanding, and predicting the developments in the “hybrid” regimes of Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabular…
Kaczyński’s Poland and Orbán’s Hungary: Different Forms of Autocracy with Common Right-Wing Frames in the EU
This paper discusses the regimes of Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland (2015–) and Viktor Orbán in Hungary (2010–) from the perspective of a curious paradox: they are very different in functioning but adhere to right-wing ideological frames that are very similar. First, we argue for a dual-level approach to understanding the formal and informal nature of these regimes, and we identify Poland as a conservative autocratic attempt and Hungary as an establ…
From “actually existing socialism” to actually existing post-socialism: János Kornai and the importance of language reform in political economy
This paper discusses the contributions of János Kornai to the “language reform” of socialism and post-socialism, meaning the creation of new conceptual frameworks to replace the mainstream interpretation of the system with a more realistic, critical description. We show that, in the three waves of language reform under the Kádár regime – economics, sociology, and law – Kornai was a trailblazer by introducing concepts like “soft budget constraint,…
Towards a set of indices for relational economy on the example of Hungary
While informal relations between economic and political actors are prevalent in post-communist economies, proper tools for their quantitative measurement are lacking. This paper is a starting point for thinking about this issue. Relying on previous research (Magyar – Madlovics 2020), we elaborate the concept of ‘relational economy,’ and discuss the problem of measuring its peculiar phenomena by existing direct and indirect data. Towards a set of …
A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics
Post-communist predation: Modeling reiderstvo practices in contemporary predatory states
Populism as a Challenge to Legal-Rational Legitimacy: The Cases of Orbán and Trump
The global rise of xenophobia can hardly be detached from the global rise of populism. We define populism as the ideological instrument for the political program of morally unconstrained collective egoism. We show how this challenges liberal democracy, attempting to replace its legal-rational legitimacy basis with substantive-rational legitimacy. Collective egoism is explained in the context of the social psychology of populism. Then, we use the …
Stubborn Structures: A Path-Dependence Explanation of Transitions in the Postcommunist Region
Stubborn Structures:A Path-Dependence Explanation of Transitions in the Postcommunist Region1 Bálint Magyar (bio) and Bálint Madlovics (bio) the formula for regime change following the collapse of the Eurasian communist regimes in 1989–1990 seemed clear: to take the step from one-party communist dictatorship with a state monopoly on property to a multi-party parliamentary democracy based on private property ownership and a market economy. However…
Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State
The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twenty-five angles. Topics discussed include the ideology, constitutional issues, social policy, the judiciary, foreign relations, nationalism, media, memory politics, corruption, civil s…
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law. At that time, many readers doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, whose key categories were the 'organized over-world', the 'state employing mafia methods' and the 'adopted political family'. Critics considered these categories metaphors rather than elements of a coherent conc…
Entrepreneurs on the Road to Post-communism
Stubborn Structures: A Path-Dependence Explanation of Transitions in the Postcommunist Region
Stubborn Structures:A Path-Dependence Explanation of Transitions in the Postcommunist Region1 Bálint Magyar (bio) and Bálint Madlovics (bio) the formula for regime change following the collapse of the Eurasian communist regimes in 1989–1990 seemed clear: to take the step from one-party communist dictatorship with a state monopoly on property to a multi-party parliamentary democracy based on private property ownership and a market economy. However…
Post-communist predation: Modeling reiderstvo practices in contemporary predatory states
Populism as a Challenge to Legal-Rational Legitimacy: The Cases of Orbán and Trump
The global rise of xenophobia can hardly be detached from the global rise of populism. We define populism as the ideological instrument for the political program of morally unconstrained collective egoism. We show how this challenges liberal democracy, attempting to replace its legal-rational legitimacy basis with substantive-rational legitimacy. Collective egoism is explained in the context of the social psychology of populism. Then, we use the …
Entrepreneurs on the Road to Post-communism
Entrepreneurs on the Road to Post-communism
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law. At that time, many readers doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, whose key categories were the 'organized over-world', the 'state employing mafia methods' and the 'adopted political family'. Critics considered these categories metaphors rather than elements of a coherent conc…
Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State
The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twenty-five angles. Topics discussed include the ideology, constitutional issues, social policy, the judiciary, foreign relations, nationalism, media, memory politics, corruption, civil s…
Stubborn Structures: A Path-Dependence Explanation of Transitions in the Postcommunist Region
Stubborn Structures:A Path-Dependence Explanation of Transitions in the Postcommunist Region1 Bálint Magyar (bio) and Bálint Madlovics (bio) the formula for regime change following the collapse of the Eurasian communist regimes in 1989–1990 seemed clear: to take the step from one-party communist dictatorship with a state monopoly on property to a multi-party parliamentary democracy based on private property ownership and a market economy. However…
Post-communist predation: Modeling reiderstvo practices in contemporary predatory states
Populism as a Challenge to Legal-Rational Legitimacy: The Cases of Orbán and Trump
The global rise of xenophobia can hardly be detached from the global rise of populism. We define populism as the ideological instrument for the political program of morally unconstrained collective egoism. We show how this challenges liberal democracy, attempting to replace its legal-rational legitimacy basis with substantive-rational legitimacy. Collective egoism is explained in the context of the social psychology of populism. Then, we use the …
A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics
Postkommunistische Regime: Akteure, Institutionen und Dynamiken
A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
EN: The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against 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, understanding, and predicting the developments in the “hybrid” regimes of Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabular…
Kaczyński’s Poland and Orbán’s Hungary: Different Forms of Autocracy with Common Right-Wing Frames in the EU
This paper discusses the regimes of Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland (2015–) and Viktor Orbán in Hungary (2010–) from the perspective of a curious paradox: they are very different in functioning but adhere to right-wing ideological frames that are very similar. First, we argue for a dual-level approach to understanding the formal and informal nature of these regimes, and we identify Poland as a conservative autocratic attempt and Hungary as an establ…
From “actually existing socialism” to actually existing post-socialism: János Kornai and the importance of language reform in political economy
This paper discusses the contributions of János Kornai to the “language reform” of socialism and post-socialism, meaning the creation of new conceptual frameworks to replace the mainstream interpretation of the system with a more realistic, critical description. We show that, in the three waves of language reform under the Kádár regime – economics, sociology, and law – Kornai was a trailblazer by introducing concepts like “soft budget constraint,…
Towards a set of indices for relational economy on the example of Hungary
While informal relations between economic and political actors are prevalent in post-communist economies, proper tools for their quantitative measurement are lacking. This paper is a starting point for thinking about this issue. Relying on previous research (Magyar – Madlovics 2020), we elaborate the concept of ‘relational economy,’ and discuss the problem of measuring its peculiar phenomena by existing direct and indirect data. Towards a set of …
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law. At that time, many readers doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, whose key categories were the 'organized over-world', the 'state employing mafia methods' and the 'adopted political family'. Critics considered these categories metaphors rather than elements of a coherent conc…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Communism (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition (4 works)