Concepts & Comparative Frameworks
Concepts & Comparative Frameworks
This section supplies short comparative and definitional pages that reduce ambiguity in the analytical vocabulary used across the knowledge base. They are not substitute mechanism or thesis pages; they clarify distinctions that recur in secondary literature and in user questions.
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| Concept | Focus |
|---|---|
| Kleptocracy vs Oligarchy | Why the post-2000 Russian pattern is described as kleptocracy / kremligarch system rather than classic 1990s oligarchy. |
| Mafia-State Models | How the “mafia state / criminocracy” label is used in the secondary literature and what it does and does not claim. |
| State–Crime Continuum | From pure separation to full fusion: where the documented Russian pattern sits and why “symbiosis” is preferred to simpler dichotomies. |
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Kleptocracy vs Oligarchy
Comparative framework: classic 1990s oligarchy implied relative autonomy from the political centre; post-2000 kremligarch kleptocracy implies dependence on and service to the vertical of power.
Mafia-State Models
How secondary literature uses ‘mafia state’ and ‘criminocracy’: blurred boundaries between state, security services and organised crime; criminal methods as tools of governance — and explicit limits of the claim.
State–Crime Continuum
Conceptual continuum from pure institutional separation to full fusion of state and organised crime. Where the documented Russian pattern sits and why ‘symbiosis’ is the preferred term.