Links in the Chain
Links in the Chain

Patron-Client Relations in the Mafia State

Author(s): Zoltán Lakner
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Central European University Press
Summary/Abstract: The conceptual apparatus of the mafia state desires to attain a circumstance when not only “ordinary” corruption dominates the government, and not“simply” the occurrence of state capture has to be taken into account. The essence of the “octopus” is political and economic power that builds onto and within itself. It is not an external interest group that puts the management of the state under its control, but a coterie that acquires it “directly,”with the goal of mobilizing the complete array of assets of the state, from financial resources to legislation, for its private benefit. In this world of legalized corruption, the far-reaching and unquestionable supremacy of the central government takes precedence over the rule of law.

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