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" Organized crime and the challenge to democracy / "
edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert ; foreword by David Beetham.
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BL
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1010618
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b764988
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| Title & Author
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Organized crime and the challenge to democracy /\ edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert ; foreword by David Beetham.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2003.
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Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ;; 28
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1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) :: illustrations
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020342641X
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: 041536972X
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: 9780203426418
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: 9780415369725
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Civil society.
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Democracy.
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Organized crime, Case studies.
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Organized crime.
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Civil society.
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Democracy.
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Organized crime.
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TRUE CRIME-- Organized Crime.
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364.1/06
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HV6441.O764 2003eb
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Allum, Felia,1971-
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Siebert, Renate,1942-
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