Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the
failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to
place on the national political agenda issues relating to the
public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than
fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues
directly affect the interests of the smallholder population. Yet
successive Sri Lankan governments have pursued economic policies
favouring food consumers and the state itself at the expense of
agricultural producers. In exploring the features of Sri Lanka's
history, geography, politics and economy which explain this
paradox, the author looks in detail at some of the dominant
features of contemporary Sri Lanka: the political consequences of
the plantation experience; the persistence of elite political
leadership; and the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge South Asian Studies |
| Release date: |
December 2007 |
| First published: |
September 2007 |
| Authors: |
Mick Moore
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 141 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
348 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-04776-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Political economy
|
| LSN: |
0-521-04776-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780521047760 |
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