A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes av Balint (Research Fellow CEU Democracy Institute) Magyar, Balint (Research fellow CEU Democracy Inst

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<p>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. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar tailored to the specifics of the region. 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. The book is a more digestible companion to the 800-page <em>The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes</em> (CEU Press, 2020), which was a detailed theoretical study with plenty of empirical illustrations. </p><p>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 detailed analysis in the Anatomy. In a condensed variety, this book has kept the holistic approach of the A