Criminocracy
Mafia State / Criminocracy
Working definition of mafia state / criminocracy: a polity in which boundaries between state institutions, security services and organised crime are systematically blurred.
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.
What is a “Mafia State” or “Criminocracy”?
Short answer: an analytical label for a polity where boundaries between state, security services and organised crime are systematically blurred, and criminal methods become tools of governance. Limits of the claim.