Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Political Parties, Clientelism and State Capture

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Cover Half Title Series Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of box Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Post-communism - clientelism, party and state capture 1.1 Post-communism - a unique transition 1.2 Transition strategies: Central Europe and the Russian sphere 1.3 Informal networks, informal politics 1.4 The informal predatory nomenklatura 1.5 The informal 'client-client' pattern 1.6 Post-1989 clientelism — corruption and patronage 1.7 State capture — the clientelist version 1.8 Party capture: the firm-party-firm pattern 1.9 Post-communist alternatives in Central Europe 1.10 Concluding remarks 2 Party capture: privatisation 'from below' 2.1 Party privatisation 'from below' 2.1.1 Recruitment of 'fake' party members 2.1.2 Withdrawal of licences in the ODS in 2013 2.1.3 Withdrawal of licences in the ODS in 2014 2.1.4 Regional bosses - a new layer 2.1.4.1 The regional boss — the narrow and broad approach 2.1.4.2 The regional boss - godfather 2.1.4.3 The regional boss - trader 2.1.4.4 The regional boss - authentic party politician 2.1.5 National bosses 2.1.6 The 'Kens' - an appendage of the bosses 2.1.7 A list of selected bosses 2.1.8 The new black marketeering 2.1.9 Decline of the bosses - what next? 3 Party capture: colonisation 'from above' 3.1 Pro-business politics - oligopolies and monopolies 3.1.1 Actors of colonisation 'from above' - the example of ČEZ 3.1.2 ČEZ, Škoda Holding, I&C Energo and Appian 3.1.3 ČEZ, J&T and Czech Coal 3.2 A comparison: party privatisation and colonisation 3.3 Political and economic cartels 3.4 Concluding remarks 4 The clientelist party, clientelist parliamentarism and clientelist regime 4.1 The client-client relationship 4.2 The triangle: parties-business-civil service 4.3 Concentric circles of clientelist networks 4.4 The contagion of clientelism 4.5 Structural corruption 4.6 Security and surveillance potential 4.7 Reduction of the significance of elections 4.8 Business and parasitic functions 4.9 A modified concept of fundamental cleavages 4.10 The party organisational model - confederation 4.11 Clientelist parliamentarism 4.12 Clientelist democracy 4.13 The concept of the clientelist party 4.14 A modified political system 4.15 Concluding remarks 5 "Old parties in new party systems?" 5.1 The new parties - a theoretical framework 5.2 Central Europe: "old parties in new party systems?" 5.3 Central Europe: a new party subsystem 5.4 'Flash' and 'start-up' parties 5.5 From mass to modern elite parties 5.6 Dis/continuity with the clientelist past 5.6.1 The business-firm party: ANO 5.6.2 ANO's positive and negative potentials 5.6.3 Quo vadis ANO? 5.7 Concluding remarks 6 Conclusion 6.1 Three critical political junctures 6.1.1 The second political juncture - since 2000 6.1.2 The third political juncture — since 2015 6.2 The myth of referenda: the deconstruction of representative democracy 6.3 The danger of anti-corruption crusades 6.4 Dahrendorf: an authentic civil society Bibliography Index