State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence
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- The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.89)
- Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.88)
- Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options (similarity 0.88)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.87)
- Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic (similarity 0.87)
- Failing to integrate masses into the state produces a stunted, dependent ruling class (similarity 0.84)
- Church-state conflict after 1861 pushed the church toward local mafia alliances (similarity 0.83)
- Mafia secrecy is functional information control, not just cultural code (similarity 0.83)
- Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.83)
- Mafiosi can organize as well or as badly as ordinary economic actors (similarity 0.83)
- Distrust has multiple settlements, so an extra factor explains mafia origin (similarity 0.83)
- European states consolidated power through monopolizing violence and administration. (similarity 0.82)
- Juridico-political ideology masks the economic’s determinant role under capitalism (similarity 0.82)
- Conquest by a nation-state provokes national consciousness and blocks empire building (similarity 0.82)
- Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.82)