The Mafia and Clientelism by James Walston

Author:James Walston [Walston, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Europe, Great Britain, Italy
ISBN: 9781000156270
Google: Axb8DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-10T03:42:02+00:00

Ligato then went on to name names. As a Christian Democrat and former assessor his denunciation has a different value to one from, say, a communist.

By using the sort of mechanism Ligato described, the politician is able to expand his support and control. The regional minister who manages to get x billion lire in loans for a specific project then has the absolute support of the various contractors involved in the project. According to a communist deputy,, an ex-regional deputy himself, a portion of that (public) money will go to the politician’s party and come to the politician himself.79

Ministers, parliamentarians and regional deputies are by no means the only form of mediation between centre and periphery. Earlier in the chapter I mentioned that organisations in civil society have been weak in Calabria with respect to most of the rest of the country. This is indeed the case but this does not mean that they are non-existent; three groupings in civil society have had noticeable effects in linking the region to the capital. Over and above these three, the prefects have had considerable influence as a linkage within the state. But in contrast with the actions of politicians which for the most part are highly publicised, hard evidence for these groupings is much more difficult to come by. Subsequent sections are therefore limited by the availability of material.

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