Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables xi
5. Editor’s Preface 1
6. I. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
7. Introduction: Freeing Post-Soviet Regimes from the Procrustean Bed of Democracy Theory 3
8. The System Paradigm Revisited: Clarification and Additions in the Light of Experiences in the Post-Socialist Region 21
9. Neopatrimonialism in post-Soviet Eurasia 75
10. Towards a terminology for postcommunist regimes 97
11. II. ACTORS OF POWER
12. Putin’s neo-nomenklatura system and its evolution 177
13. Republic of Clans: The evolution of the Ukrainian political system 217
14. Is Belarus a Classic Post-Communist Mafia State? 247
15. The Romanian Patronal System of Public Corruption 275
16. III. TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS
17. The Russian Party System 317
18. The Belarusian non-party political system: Government, trust and institutions, 1990–2015 353
19. Illiberal State Censorship: A Must-have Accessory for Any Mafia State 371
20. Disarming Public Protests in Russia: Transforming Public Goods into Private Goods 385
21. IV. WEALTH AND OWNERSHIP
22. The Institution of Power&Ownership in the Former USSR: Origin, Diversity of Forms, and Influence on Transformation Processes 413
23. Russia’s Network State and Reiderstvo Practices: The Roots to Weak Property Rights Protection after the post-Communist Transition 437
24. From Free Market Corruption Risk to the Certainty of a State-Run Criminal Organization (using Hungary as an example) 461
25. V. CONTRASTS AND CONNECTIONS
26. Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine as Post- Soviet Rent-Seeking Regimes 487
27. The Structure of Corruption: A Systemic Analysis 507
28. The new East European patronal states and the rule-of-law 531
29. Parallel System Narratives—Polish and Hungarian regime formations compared A structuralist essay 611
30. List of Contributors 657
31. Index 659