Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options
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- The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.90)
- State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.88)
- Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic (similarity 0.87)
- Information within the mafia is compartmentalized along family and rank lines (similarity 0.87)
- Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.86)
- Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.85)
- Mafia affiliation is tied to residence, not portable status or letters. (similarity 0.85)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.84)
- Mafia families punish members who poach fellow members’ clients. (similarity 0.84)
- Distrust has multiple settlements, so an extra factor explains mafia origin (similarity 0.83)
- Mafia territory is jurisdiction-like but does not coincide with official boundaries (similarity 0.83)
- Mafia secrecy is functional information control, not just cultural code (similarity 0.82)
- Illegality prevents mafia reputation from detaching from particular owners, blocking firm expansion (similarity 0.82)
- Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself (similarity 0.81)
- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.81)