Liberalizzazioni e regolazione pubblica tra isomorfismo e resilienza: il caso italiano

Arcidiacono, Davide; Palidda, Rita

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“…Moreover, these two types of expectations are enforced through social sanctions: the news is full of stories detailing how entrepreneurs who refused to pay the pizzo and/or reported the request to the authorities were isolated by other citizens, both on a personal and commercial level 4 . The presence of a social norm of paying pizzo – along with being weary of punishment by the Mafia – undermines the efforts of the State to create a context in which laws motivate citizens to stop paying the pizzo and report the request to the authorities (Arcidiacono et al ., 2016). The question then becomes: how can a change of such social norm be initiated?…”

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The change in social norms in the Mafia's territories: the anti-racket movement of Addiopizzo

Lipari

Andrighetto

2020

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Social norms pervade society and when they conflict with legal norms, the former undermine the latter making them ineffective. In this study, we propose that the extortion racket in Sicily has turned into a social norm and this is why recent top-down interventions have failed in stalling this socially undesirable activity. One exception is represented by Addiopizzo, a grass root movement that uses non-legal means to fight the racket phenomenon in Sicily. During the last 15 years, Addiopizzo was able to produce an effective reduction in the payment of protection money in the Sicilian city of Palermo by triggering, we suggest, among other things, a process of change in social norms. Acknowledging the importance of a change in social norms to achieve social change allows us to link the theory of institutions as ‘rules’ with the theory of institutions as ‘equilibria’.

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The change in social norms in the Mafia's territories: the anti-racket movement of Addiopizzo

Lipari

Andrighetto

2020

Journal of Institutional Economics

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“…As is well known, extortion is one of the most important activities of mafia organisations in general and the Sicilian mafia in particular (Gambetta 1993; Sciarrone 2009; Scaglione 2008; Varese 2014; Arcidiacono, Palidda and Avola 2016; La Spina and Militello 2016; Mete 2018). 4 The enforced payment by businesses of the pizzo , especially in areas with a traditional mafia presence, is the fundamental way of confirming control of the territory (Lupo 2009; Santino 1994a).…”

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Social change and anti-mafia movements: the ‘Addiopizzo’ variable

Scaglione

2019

Mod. Italy

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This article presents the results of a piece of research into extortion in the city of Palermo between 2004 and 2015. Highlighting the importance of the territorial context among the factors that explain the mafia phenomenon, the study draws on two different georeferencing databases: the first relating to the distribution of extortion across the Sicilian capital's various districts, and the second relating to the distribution of Palermo businesses that had joined the Addiopizzo anti-extortion movement. Although the empirical material is problematic, marked territorial variations emerge from a comparative analysis of the two databases, prompting a number of potential interpretations.

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“…The most basic, and also most prevalent in the collective imagination, consists of the forced extraction from the trader of a regular payment, made in exchange for little or nothing from the mafia member: permission to continue pursuing some form of economic activity in that territory. In this regard, other research specifically devoted to the theme of extortion has illustrated the multiplicity of methods that mafiosi use to extract resources from businesses (La Spina 2008, 2013; Di Gennaro and La Spina 2010; Arcidiacono, Palidda, and Avola 2016). Given the variety of forms that extortion can take, and especially in view of its illegal and therefore covert nature, research in this area is neither straightforward nor without some degree of risk.…”

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The trader perspective: researching extortion in Palermo

Mete

2018

Mod. Italy

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This article presents the results of some empirical research on extortion in Palermo. The project is based on the administration of a structured questionnaire with traders in various districts within Palermo and villages in the provincial interior, in two phases, the first in 2007 and second in 2012. The objective was to explore traders’ opinions on the various aspects of the phenomenon of extortion: its characteristics, causes, possible solutions, and the responsibilities of every actor in the battle against this illegal enterprise. In the period in which the research was undertaken, there was a wave of strong anti-mafia and anti-racketeering activism, particularly stimulated by the emergence in 2004 of the Comitato Addiopizzo and culminating in the establishment of the first ‘antiracket’ association in Palermo.

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Liberalizzazioni e regolazione pubblica tra isomorfismo e resilienza: il caso italiano

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

The change in social norms in the Mafia's territories: the anti-racket movement of Addiopizzo

The change in social norms in the Mafia's territories: the anti-racket movement of Addiopizzo

Social change and anti-mafia movements: the ‘Addiopizzo’ variable

The trader perspective: researching extortion in Palermo

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