caa a22 4500 386321655 CHVBK 20180307111628.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e19880401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00076.x doi S0017257X00006539 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00076.x von Beyme Klaus Economics and Politics in a Socialist Country: Gorbachev's New Concepts [Elektronische Daten] [Klaus von Beyme] SINCE GORBACHEV'S COMING TO POWER THE RELATIONSHIP between economics and politics in the Soviet Union has been changing rapidly. But even from the outset one could see that there would be limits to change. The primacy of politics which characterizes the relationship between economics and politics under the conditions of socialism in power will be fully maintained in the future, too. All proposals for more decentralization meet with obstacles when they seem to call into question the leading role of the party. The party is only advised to observe a kind of ‘economic restraint': it should stop mingling every aspect of public administration with the economy. The idea is to free the party from its responsibility for detail in order to allow it to concentrate more on its central political tasks. In this respect socialism has problems similar to those which Western governments face in the welfare state. After the end of the hegemony of social democracy it is, above all, the conservative parties in Western Europe who are ready to reduce the responsibility of the governments of the day for many economic and social tasks: this is why we find deregulation efforts, privatization of public enterprises and the transfer of political functions to non-state social organizations everywhere. Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 23/2(1988-04-01), 167-185 0017-257X 23:2<167 1988 23 GOV https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00076.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00076.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- von Beyme Klaus NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 23/2(1988-04-01), 167-185 0017-257X 23:2<167 1988 23 GOV CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge