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Shall we follow the money? Anti-mafia policies and electoral competition
Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021Abstract Building upon the evidence that the mafia increases the degree of vote concentration, we use data on regional elections in Sicily to estimate the impact of anti-mafia policies on electoral competition. We find robust evidence that the reassignment for social purposes of property and assets seized to the mafia reduces the degree of electoral ...
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The Fascist anti-mafia operation in Campania, 1926-1927
Modern Italy, 2017The anti-mafia operation undertaken in Sicily by the fledgling Fascist government had a powerful symbolic meaning in the construction of the ‘new state’. As a result, it left behind a wealth of sources: from the diaries of the prefect Cesare Mori and Alfredo Cucco, the Fascist Party’s representative in Sicily, to the many trials against ‘criminal ...
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Liability for negligently issued anti-mafia certificates
Journal of Financial Crime, 2018Purpose This paper aims to analyse the different forms of liability that might apply under Italian private law to anti-mafia advisors who negligently perform their duties, with particular regards to auditors concerning the drafting of mandatory anti-mafia certificates as bidding documents for public procurement contracts. Design/methodology/approach
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Social change and anti-mafia movements: the ‘Addiopizzo’ variable
Modern Italy, 2019This article presents the results of a piece of research into extortion in the city of Palermo between 2004 and 2015. Highlighting the importance of the territorial context among the factors that explain the mafia phenomenon, the study draws on two different georeferencing databases: the first relating to the distribution of extortion across the ...
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Italian Street Naming Practices and Anti-Mafia Memory Policies
2023Il contributo illustra la diffusione dell’odonomastica antimafia in Italia e ne studia il significato nel quadro storico delle politiche di denominazione delle strade in Italia, mettendo in luce le difficoltà del processo e il ruolo fondamentale dell’associazionismo civico.
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Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy
Public ChoiceThis paper aims to evaluate the impact of a policy that targets criminal infiltration in local governments on the provision of local public goods in Italian municipalities. Building on the theoretical framework proposed by Dal Bò (American Political Science Review 100:41–53, 2006), we use a sufficient statistic approach to describe the dynamic ...
Fontana, Stefania, d'Agostino, Giorgio
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Anti-mafia enterprise: Italian strategies to counter violent economies
2020This chapter contributes to building a diverse, non-capitalocentric economic vocabulary by making visible concrete entrepreneurial practices that are involved in fighting criminal economies. Although they do not fit into the dominant representation of the ‘Economy’, that is, as including all those ‘productive’ activities that result in waged ...
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Anti-Mafia Confiscation Against Corruption: The New Frontier of Human Rights
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019The Italian lawmakers have recently extended the anti-Mafia non conviction based confiscation to the persons suspected of belonging to a criminal association aimed to corruption or to the commission of various crimes against public administration. This provision, although apparently in line with the tendency increasingly widespread on a supranational ...
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Reorganizing crime: mafia and anti-mafia in post-Soviet Georgia
Central Asian Survey, 2014Thieves-in-law (Russian, vory-v-zakone; Georgian, k'anonieri kurdebi) are professional criminal leaders invested in practising and perpetuating mafia activities according to a code known as ‘the un...
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The Social Anti-Mafia in Western Sicily: An Experiment in Visual Ethnography
Visual Anthropology, 2020Frustrated by the constraints imposed on visual ethnography by any one film, Toni de Bromhead has been filming around the subject of the Sicilian mafia for a quarter-century, building up a body of ...
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