This chapter examines the issues and challenges facing small states. It points out that the challenges are often of an entirely different order to those faced by larger polities and that the lack of resources, especially human resources, is a limiting factor to the ability to change and modernize. They note there is a dearth of published research on small states and that the notion of what constitutes a small state is itself often a contested concept. They make the pertinent point that small countries are not simply smaller versions of larger ones. The chapter argues that as well as there being a qualitatively different nature to small states, the research needs to reflect this and explore notions and concepts of democracy from a small state perspective.
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