The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka (Paperback, New)

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 Promotions
LSN:	0-521-04776-5
Barcode:	9780521047760

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