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Organized crime and the challenge to democracy / edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert ; foreword by David Beetham.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 28.
- Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organized crime.
- Democracy.
- Civil society.
- Organized crime--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 238 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from Russia, South Africa, South America, the US, the EU and includes a detailed case study of Italy.
- Contents:
- Definitions and diatribes. Why is organized crime so successful? / Fabio Armao. Mafia and anti-mafia, the implications for everyday life / Renate Siebert. Transnational organized crime between myth and reality : the social construction of a threat / Monica Massari
- The 'weakest link' : the state under siege. Organized crime, business and the state in post-Communist Russia / Sergei Plekhanov. Drug-trafficking and the state : the case of Colombia / Sayaka Fukumi. Transnational organized crime, security and the European Union / Wyn Rees
- Civil society held to ransom. 'Once upon a time in America' : organized crime and civil society / Robert J. Kelly and Rufus Schatzberg. Civil resistance : society fights back ... / Ercole Giap Parini. For Christ's sake : organized crime and religion / Alessandra Dino
- Organized crime and politics. Democracy and the gangs : the case of Marseille / Paola Monzini. Organized crime, politics and the judiciary in post-war Italy / Jean-Louis Briquet. Mediated democracy : Yakuza and Japanese political leadership / Eiko Maruko. Conclusion : organized crime and democracy : 'uncivil' or 'civil' society? / Felia Allum and Renate Siebert.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 041536972X
- OCLC:
- 51264695
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