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A Monocytic Barrier to the Humanization of Immunodeficient Mice. [PDF]

open access: yesCurr Stem Cell Res Ther
Du EJ, Muench MO.
europepmc   +1 more source

Shall we follow the money? Anti-mafia policies and electoral competition

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021
Abstract 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 ...
Livio Ferrante   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Liability for negligently issued anti-mafia certificates

Journal of Financial Crime, 2018
Purpose 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
exaly   +3 more sources

Cultivating a better society: Anti-Mafia farm participation increases prosocial motivations

International Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Abstract The present research tested whether an Anti-Mafia experiential education program would influence self-reported prosocial motivations in a group of 79 Italian participants. The Caprara Prosocial Questionnaire was used to evaluate prosocial motivations and was completed before the camp began, when it ended and three months after in ended ...
Michele Capurso   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Fifty Years of Mafia Corruption and Anti-mafia Reform

Current Anthropology, 2018
Since the formation of the Mafia as a criminal organization in late nineteenth-century Sicily, anti-mafia reformers have attacked mafia corruption.
exaly   +2 more sources

The Fascist anti-mafia operation in Campania, 1926-1927

Modern Italy, 2017
The 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Social change and anti-mafia movements: the ‘Addiopizzo’ variable

Modern Italy, 2019
This 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Italian Street Naming Practices and Anti-Mafia Memory Policies

2023
Il 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 Choice
This 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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