Organized crime and the challenge to democracy / 
edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert ; foreword by David Beetham. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2008. 
 - xiv, 238 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ;  28 .
 - Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ;  28. .
<br/><br/> Transferred to digital printing.  Originally published: 2003. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> This work investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from Russia, South Africa, South America, the US and the EU, and includes a case study of Italy. 
<br/><br/> Specialized. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415467278 (pbk.) :  £23.50 0415467276 (pbk.) :  £23.50 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Organized crime.<br/>Democracy.<br/>Civil society.<br/>Organized crime--Case studies.<br/>Crime.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.1'06