1. Mafia, Politics, and Social Theory: An Introduction2. The 'Mafia' in 'Mafia Studies': (Re)constructing a Sociological Object3. What is Right with the Economic Theory of the Mafia?4. The Public Life of Mafiosi5. The Mafioso's Gift or, Making Sense of an "Offer You Cannot Refuse"6. Blood, Bund, and (Personal) Bonds: The Mafia as an Institutional Type7. Mafia as an Elementary Form of Politics
Marco Santoro is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna.