(Not in Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy
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- Published: July 2003
- ISBN: 978-0-415-36972-5
- Publisher: Routledge
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- Edited by Felia Allum, and Renate Siebert.
Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science.
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 the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union.
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'A contemporary assessment of the relationships among the State, civil society, politics, and organized crime in different cultural contexts.' - International Association for the Study of Organized Crime
'The volume presents a broad palette of fresh work on organised crime and democracy … [it] stakes out a stimulating, international, interdisciplinary research program.' - Global Crime
Author/Editor Biography
Felia Allum is a lecturer in Italian history and politics at the University of Bath, UK. Her research interests are European and Italian politics and organized crime, in particular, its relationship with politics.Renate Siebert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calabria, Italy. Her research focuses on gender, generations, the mafia and the Mezzogiorno region in particular.