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

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Berzins J.
Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia
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2009
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vol. 17
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issue 4
529-539
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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.
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LATVIA AND THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: DEVELOPMENT, UNDERDEVELOPMENT AND MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

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Berzins J.
Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia
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2009
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issue 1(58)
42-68
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Development differs from growth, which is related only to the improvement of economic indicators; in other words, a country's economy may grow in a stationary way without real development that is dependent on innovation. Also, there is a relationship between development and growth. This study looks at the current development of Latvia and concludes that there is growth but not development. The author suggests that only a profound change in the local political culture, along with policies for attracting foreign direct investment and directing local savings to strategic sectors, can change the current socio-economic situation in Latvia. The main challenge is to direct these changes in a way that shapes structures based on the knowledge society. That would ensure a non-subordinated insertion of the country into the international division of labour, stabilise the economy, improve its macroeconomic performance and develop the country.
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