Publications (Magyar, English)

2023 „From “actually existing socialism” to actually existing post-socialism: János Kornai and the importance of language reform in political economy” (with Bálint Madlovics), Acta Oeconomica 73:S1, pp. 27-46. Link. PDF.

2023 „Why the Polish Elections Cannot Be Repeated in Orbán’s Hungary” (with Bálint Madlovics), Review of Democracy, CEU Democracy Institute, 23 October. Link.

2023 ed. Russia’s Imperial Endeavor and Its Geopolitical Consequences: The Russia-Ukraine War, Volume Two (co-edited by Bálint Madlovics), CEU Press. Link. PDF.

2023 ed. Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion: The Russia-Ukraine War, Volume One (co-edited by Bálint Madlovics), CEU Press. Link. PDF.

2023 „Kacyński’s Poland and Orbán’s Hungary: Different Forms of Autocracy with Common Right-Wing Frames in the EU” (with Bálint Madlovics), UC Berkeley Journal of Right-Wing Studies 1:1, pp. 2-36. Link. PDF.

2023 „Ukrainian Regime Cycles and the Russian Invasion” (with Bálint Madlovics), CEU DI Working Paper series, 17 May. Link.

2023 „Towards a set of indices for relational economy on the example of Hungary” (with Bálint Madlovics), Acta Oeconomica, 73:1, pp. 101-127. Link.

2023 „Hungary’s Dubious Loyalty: Orban’s Regime Strategy in the Russia-Ukraine War” (with Bálint Madlovics), CEU DI Working Paper series, 27 February. Link. In Hungarian (summary).

2022 A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics (with Bálint Madlovics), CEU Press. Link.

2022 „Hungary 2022: The Re-Elected Autocrat” (with Bálint Madlovics), Nederlandrechstaat, 13 April. Link.

2022 „Hungary’s Manipulated Election” (with Bálint Madlovics), Project Syndicate, 4 April. Link. In German, Czech, Greek, Slovenian. In Hungarian (summary).

2022 „Hungary 2022: Election Manipulation and the Regime’s Attempts at Electoral Fraud” (with Bálint Madlovics), CEU Democracy Institute, 31 March. Link. PDF. In Hungarian. In Polish (summary). Revised version (February 16, 2024).

2021 „Populism as a Challenge to Legal-Rational Legitimacy: The Cases of Orbán and Trump” (with Bálint Madlovics), Social Research: An International Quarterly, 88:4, Winter 2021, pp. 827-855. Link.

2020 „The EU’s Misconceived Cohesion” (with Bálint Madlovics), Project Syndicate, 23 December. Link. PDF. In Hungarian, Spanish, Chinese, French.

2020 The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework (with Bálint Madlovics). Budapest-New York: CEU Press. PDF.

2020 „Modelled Trajectories of Post-Communist Regimes” (with Bálint Madlovics), European Dialogue Expert Group, 7 July. Link.

2020 „Post-Communist Predation: Modelling Reiderstvo Practices in Contemporary Predatory States” (with Bálint Madlovics), Public Choice. Link. PDF.

2019 „The Post-Communist Mafia State as a Criminal State”, in János Mátyás Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi eds., Brave New Hungary: Mapping the “System of National Cooperation”, Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 269-290. PDF (extended manuscript).

2019 „Criminal State and the Criminal Ecosystem” (with Bálint Madlovics), Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law Moscow, n. 5 Link. PDF.

2019 „From Petty Corruption to Criminal State: A Critique of the Corruption Perceptions Index as Applied to the Post-Communist Region” (with Bálint Madlovics), Intersections – East European Journal of Society and Politics, v. 5, n. 2 Link. PDF.

2019 „Stubborn Structures: A Path-Dependence Explanation of Transitions in the Postcommunist Region” (with Bálint Madlovics), Social Research: An International Quarterly, v. 86, n. 1 Link.

2019 Parallel System Narratives: Polish and Hungarian Regime Formations Compared. In Stubborn Structures: Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes, 611–55. Budapest–New York: CEU Press. PDF. In Polish, Hungarian.

2019 From Free Market Corruption Risk to the Certainty of a State-Run Criminal Organization (Using Hungary as an Example). In Stubborn Structures: Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes, edited by Bálint Magyar, 461–86. Budapest–New York: CEU Press. PDF.

2019 Towards a terminology for post-communist regimes. In Stubborn Structures: Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes, 97-176. Budapest–New York: CEU Press.

2019 ed. Stubborn Structures: Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes. Budapest–New York: CEU Press.

2019 „Hungary’s Mafia State Fights for Impunity” (with Bálint Madlovics), Project Syndicate, 18 June. Link. PDF. In German, Polish, Hungarian (extended version), Albanian, Chinese.

2017 The Post-communist Mafia State as a Form of Criminal State. In Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State, 85-110. Budapest: CEU Press and Noran Publishing House. PDF.

2017 ed. Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State (with Júlia Vásárhelyi). Budapest: CEU Press and Noran Publishing House.

2017 „The EU’s Mafia State”, Project Syndicate, 21 June. Link. PDF.

2016 Post-Communist Mafia State – The Case of Hungary. Budapest: CEU Press – Noran Publishing House. PDF. In Hungarian, Polish.

2015 „The Hungarian Post-Communist Mafia State”, Edited transcript of the lecture at XVIth International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, 8 April. PDF. In Russian.

2014 „On the Periphery of Empires” (with Attila Ara-Kovács), Hungarian Spectrum, 18 March. Link. PDF. In Hungarian.

2014 „The Hungarian Post-Communist Mafia State (From a Critique of the Government to a Critique of the System)”, Hungarian Spectrum, 13 February. Link. PDF. In German, Hungarian.

2014 „Post-Communist Mafia State – The Hungarian Case”, Aspen Review, n. 4. Link. PDF.

2011 „The Challenge of Autocracy in Hungary: An Offer You Cannot Refuse”, unpublished translation of an article published in Népszabadság, 12 March. PDF. In Hungarian.

2006 „Humanistic and Academic Core Values: The Responsive and Responsible Reform of the European University”, Higher Education in Europe, v. 31 n. 4, 391–94. Link.

2005 „The ELearner in 2010”, Review of Sociology, v. 10 n. 2, 85–99. Link.

2004 „A Hungarian Tragedy”. Haaretz, 7 May. PDF. In Hungarian.

2001 „The Hungarian Octopus: The Organized Upper World”, unpublished translation of an article published in Magyar Hírlap, 21 February. PDF. In Hungarian.

by Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics