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Protection Rackets and Party Machines
Asian Journal of Social Science ( IF 0.694 ) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 , DOI: 10.1163/15685314-04506005
Nicolas Martin 1 , Lucia Michelutti 2
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Control over means of violence and protection emerge as crucial in much research on corruption in non-South Asian contexts. In the Indian context, however, we still know little about the systems of organised violence that sustain the entanglement of crime, capital and democratic politics. This timely comparative ethnographic piece explores two different manifestations of what our informants identify as “Mafia Raj” (“rule by mafia”) across North India (Uttar Pradesh and Punjab). Drawing on analytical concepts developed in the literature on bossism and “mafias”, we explore protection and racketeering as central statecraft repertoires of muscular styles of governance in the region. We show how a predatory economy together with structures of inter- and intra-party political competition generate the demand for and the imposition of unofficial and illegal protection and shape different manifestations of Mafia Raj. In doing so, the paper aims to contribute to debates on the relationship between states and illegalities in and beyond South Asia.

中文翻译:

保护球拍和派对机器

在非南亚背景下的许多腐败研究中,对暴力手段的控制和保护显得至关重要。然而,在印度的背景下,我们仍然对维持犯罪、资本和民主政治纠缠的有组织暴力系统知之甚少。这篇及时的比较民族志文章探讨了我们的线人所认定的印度北部(北方邦和旁遮普邦)“黑手党统治”(“黑手党统治”)的两种不同表现形式。借鉴在关于老板主义和“黑手党”的文献中发展起来的分析概念,我们探索保护和敲诈勒索作为该地区强硬治理风格的核心治国方略。我们展示了掠夺性经济以及党内和党内政治竞争的结构如何产生对非官方和非法保护的需求和强加,并塑造了黑手党统治的不同表现形式。在此过程中,本文旨在促进有关南亚内外国家与非法行为之间关系的辩论。
更新日期:2017-01-01
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