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Organized crime and the challenge to democracy /
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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Series: | Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ;
28. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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 Marseilles / 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.