CSD Bulletin, A Delicate Balance
- Content Type
- Policy Brief
- Institution
- Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster
- Abstract
- Ideological disputes about the respective domains of the state and the market have convulsed much of the twentieth century. Yet recent research and experience suggest that the interaction between politics and economics, between the state and the market, is complex and systemic. An understanding of these systemic properties is crucial for effective democratic reconstruction. This is especially so in countries with a legacy of communism - such as the transition states of the former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe - where not only the market but the state, and indeed society, may have to be reconstructed, if not reinvented.
- Topic
- Gender Issues, Globalization, Government
- Political Geography
- United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Central Europe