A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence.
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- Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic (similarity 0.88)
- The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.88)
- State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.87)
- Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.87)
- Information within the mafia is compartmentalized along family and rank lines (similarity 0.85)
- Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options (similarity 0.84)
- Efficient use of violence requires centralized, hierarchical firm organization (similarity 0.83)
- Church-state conflict after 1861 pushed the church toward local mafia alliances (similarity 0.83)
- Totalitarian movements’ rank-and-file dissolved class divisions via shared fear (similarity 0.82)
- Mafiosi can organize as well or as badly as ordinary economic actors (similarity 0.82)
- Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.82)
- Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.82)
- Mafia families punish members who poach fellow members’ clients. (similarity 0.81)
- Mafia territory is jurisdiction-like but does not coincide with official boundaries (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.81)