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Title Organized crime and the challenge to democracy / edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert ; foreword by David Beetham
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 28
Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 28.
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
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
Analysis Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Organized crime.
Democracy.
Civil society.
Organized crime -- Case studies
TRUE CRIME -- Organized Crime.
Civil society
Democracy
Organized crime
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Allum, Felia, 1971-
Siebert, Renate, 1942-
LC no. 2002155379
ISBN 020342641X
9780203426418
041536972X
9780415369725