CSD Bulletin, A Delicate Balance

Author

Chantal Mouffe, Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Bert A. Rockman, Doreen Massey, Tony McGrew, Kimberly Hutchings, Niels Jacob Harbitz

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