"Thanks to its accessible vocabulary, Post-Communist Mafia State has become highly popular within Hungary’s increasingly beleaguered liberal circles. The first volume sold more than 12,000 copies in Hungary, while a second volume, including contributions from the crème de la crème of liberal politicians and social scientists, and extending Magyar’s original theoretical framework, and has already sold more than 15,000 copies – an exceptional figure for an academic volume, especially in a country of 9.8 million people."
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