TY - BOOK AU - Allum,Felia AU - Siebert,Renate ED - European Consortium for Political Research. TI - Organized crime and the challenge to democracy T2 - Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science SN - 9780415467278 (pbk.) : U1 - 364.1'06 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Organized crime KW - Democracy KW - Civil society KW - Case studies KW - Crime KW - eflch N1 - Transferred to digital printing; Originally published: 2003; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 ER -