{"id":2081,"date":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2013\/01\/12\/im-gonna-make-him-an-offer-he-cant-refuse-a-discussion-concerning-the-definition-of-political-legitimacy-and-its-features-comparing-the-sicilian-mafia-with-sicilys-central-governments-of-th\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"im-gonna-make-him-an-offer-he-cant-refuse-a-discussion-concerning-the-definition-of-political-legitimacy-and-its-features-comparing-the-sicilian-mafia-with-sicilys-central-governments-of-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2013\/01\/12\/im-gonna-make-him-an-offer-he-cant-refuse-a-discussion-concerning-the-definition-of-political-legitimacy-and-its-features-comparing-the-sicilian-mafia-with-sicilys-central-governments-of-th\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m Gonna Make Him an Offer He Can’t Refuse … ” A discussion concerning the definition of political legitimacy and its features, comparing the Sicilian Mafia with Sicily’s central governments of the 1860’s and 1920’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can the notion of political legitimacy be effectively applied to the Sicilian Mafia? What defines a legitimate authority? Can the Mafia be seen as legitimate if the state is not? These concerns will be discussed within the parameters of two central points in Sicilian history; the Unification of Italy during the 1860’s and the Italian Fascist regime of the 1920’s, allowing for a comparison between the Sicilian Mafia organisation and Sicily’s governments.<\/p>\n

Philosophy
\nMARX; is the state merely an illusion, disguising our real interests? I must have self-mastery in order to be free and rational; is the Mafia therefore legitimate?
\nRAWLS; There must be a publicly recognised universal and fair distribution of justice in a well-ordered, liberal society; does the Sicilian state achieve this?
\nThe thought of HOBBES and ROUSSEAU regarding the definitions of ‘authority’ and ‘political legitimacy’ will be used as framework to the discussion.<\/p>\n

Sources
\nHistorical interpretations and genealogies; including Pantaleone’s The Mafia and Politics , Dickie’s Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia , and Duggan’s Fascism and the Mafia . Coppola’s The Godfather films were used for inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helen Iredale, 2013, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,22,123],"tags":[256,31,61],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-609","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-authority","tag-marx","tag-rawls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}