POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY IN LATVIA: NEOLIBERALISM, SCHUMPETERIAN DEMOCRACY AND POPULISM

• Authors: Berzins Janis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The term knowledge society refers to the specific form assumed by the capitalist system in the last forty years, and it also represents its specific social, economic, ideological, and political systems. Although there is a strong rhetoric denying it, it is quite obvious that politics and economics are interconnected and that their relationship influences the social dynamics by establishing specific patterns of ideological dominance. One characteristic of the knowledge society is the negation of any form of connection between these variables while denying its ideological character. The alleged separation of the political from the economic and the social forms the basis of Schumpeterian democracy, which becomes the knowledge society's political model, just as neoliberalism becomes its economic model. This paper analyses the specific patterns of this model in Latvia.

Keywords

EN

CAPITALIST SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY; NEOLIBERALISM; POPULISM; SCHUMPETERIAN DEMOCRACY

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: EPC Ltd (Economic Prognosis Centre), Riga, Latvia (till March 2009 - Institute of Economics, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Ltd)
• Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 529-539
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Berzins Janis

• Janis Berzins, Riga Stradina University, Faculty of European Studies, Department of Political Sciences, Dzirciema 16, Riga, LV 1007, Latvia; www.hssl.lv

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10LVAAAA07763