{"product_id":"the-state-and-peasant-politics-in-sri-lanka-paperback-9780521047760","title":"The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521047760","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox in the politics of Sri Lanka.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMick Moore (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521047760, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 December 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e348 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14.1 x 2 cm, 0.462 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDr 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of maps\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Sri Lankan terms\u003cbr\u003e 1. Puzzles and agendas\u003cbr\u003e 2. Methods, scope and elaborations\u003cbr\u003e 3. Crown lands\u003cbr\u003e 4. Land reform\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pricing and agricultural services\u003cbr\u003e 6. Categorising space: urban-rural and core-periphery\u003cbr\u003e 7. A smallholder interest or smallholder interests?\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rural consciousness\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ethnic conflict and the politics of the periphery\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Sri Lankan polity\u003cbr\u003e 11. Concluding remarks\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political economy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political economy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20economy%20%5BKCP%5D%22\"\u003eKCP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005762326808,"sku":"9780521047760","price":28.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521047760i_80d1df28-240b-4d70-939a-e489cc5d452e.jpg?v=1694968679","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-state-and-peasant-politics-in-sri-lanka-paperback-9780521047760","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}