Economic Liberalization versus Political Pluralism in Sri Lanka

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3631367
AutoresMick Moore (0000-0002-3054-6114, University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia)
Año1990
Volumen24
Número2
Páginas341-383
Fecha de publicación1990-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaModern Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0026749x00010350
OpenAlexW2166577618
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas14

Is there a positive symbiosis between the liberal economy and the liberal polity? From the time the question became meaningful, mainstream Western social theory and doctrine has tended to give a positive answer. It has generally been possible convincingly to argue an intrinsic causal connection between the dispersal of economic (and thus political) power inherent in the competitive market economy and the pluralism which is central to all definitions of the liberal polity. At a 'broad-brush' level the historical evidence is supportive. There is a strong empirical association between liberal democracy and (successful) capitalist market systems. While there are a number of quite plausible arguments indicating some potential deep and long-term causal connections between capitalism/the market economy and political unfreedom, the balance of long term historical evidence appears to support orthodoxy

Capitalism · Doctrine · Economic system · Economics · Liberalization · Market economy · Orthodoxy · Pluralism (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies