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The mafia first appears in official records as an established force

The mafia first appears in official records as an established force

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The mafia first appears in official records as an established force

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  • Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options (similarity 0.90)
  • Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic (similarity 0.90)
  • State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.89)
  • Mafia territory is jurisdiction-like but does not coincide with official boundaries (similarity 0.89)
  • Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.88)
  • A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.88)
  • Mafia affiliation is tied to residence, not portable status or letters. (similarity 0.87)
  • Information within the mafia is compartmentalized along family and rank lines (similarity 0.86)
  • Distrust has multiple settlements, so an extra factor explains mafia origin (similarity 0.86)
  • Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.86)
  • Mafia families punish members who poach fellow members’ clients. (similarity 0.85)
  • Mafia secrecy is functional information control, not just cultural code (similarity 0.85)
  • Illegality prevents mafia reputation from detaching from particular owners, blocking firm expansion (similarity 0.85)
  • Historical mafia market statistics are often double-counted in police reports. (similarity 0.84)
  • Mafiosi can organize as well or as badly as ordinary economic actors (similarity 0.84)

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  • A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence.
  • Church-state conflict after 1861 pushed the church toward local mafia alliances
  • Client concentration and violent competition make mafia protection contracts fragile.
  • Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable
  • Distrust has multiple settlements, so an extra factor explains mafia origin
  • Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself
  • Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options
  • Ethnic specificity makes mafia trademarks hard to counterfeit
  • Historical mafia market statistics are often double-counted in police reports.
  • Illegality prevents mafia reputation from detaching from particular owners, blocking firm expansion
  • Information within the mafia is compartmentalized along family and rank lines
  • Mafia affiliation is tied to residence, not portable status or letters.
  • Mafia families punish members who poach fellow members' clients.
  • Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic
  • Mafia secrecy is functional information control, not just cultural code
  • Mafia territory is jurisdiction-like but does not coincide with official boundaries
  • Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require
  • Mafiosi can organize as well or as badly as ordinary economic actors
  • Mafiosi chose sides according to profit, not ideology or class loyalty
  • Mafiosi publicly attribute members to neutral territory to mask true affiliations
  • Mafiosi violence serves as advertisement in zero-sum honor competition
  • State weakness cannot explain the mafia's emergence
  • The literature's conflicting definitions of mafiosi as middlemen, guards, and thugs defy synthesis.
  • The mafia has always been urban as well as rural
  • The mob sought access to history through genius-idolatry and fame.