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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.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Political economy

• Full title: State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka
• Author: Mick Moore
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9780521047760
• ISBN: 0521047765
• ID: 02019963
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 217 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. December 2007

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