Broschiertes Buch

Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780415467278
• ISBN-10: 0415467276
• Artikelnr.: 25007427

Rezensionen

'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

'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