The African National Congress (ANC) as a Dominant Organisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African National Congress (ANC) as a Dominant Organisation write by Raymond Suttner. This book was released on 2008. The African National Congress (ANC) as a Dominant Organisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Political Parties in South Africa
Political Parties in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Parties in South Africa write by Thuynsma, Heather. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Political Parties in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political parties and the party system that underpins South Africa’s democracy have the potential to build a cohesive and prosperous nation. But in the past few years the ANC’s dominance has strained the system and tested it and its institutions’ fortitude. There are deeper issues of accountability that often spurn the Constitution and there is also a clear need to foster meaningful public participation and transparency. This volume offers a different and detailed assessment of the health of South Africa’s political system. This study intends to unravel the condition of the party system in South Africa and culminates in the question: Do South African parties promote or hinder democracy in the country? The areas of the party system that are known to require continued work are the weakness of democratic structures within parties, the perceived lack of responsibility of elected parliamentarians towards voters, non-transparent private partner financing structures and a lack of attractiveness of party-political commitment, especially for women. Experts in the respective fields address all of these areas in this book.
The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power
The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power write by Susan Booysen. This book was released on 2011-11-11. The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The African National Congress is light years beyond the liberation movement of old. It remains a juggernaut, but its control and dominance are no longer watertight. The ANC lives the contradictions of weaknesses, cracks and factions while retaining its colossal status. As a party-movement it draws on its liberation credentials, and extracts immense power from its deep anchorage in South Africa’s people. It is immersed in electoral politics that marks the state of its overwhelming power cyclically. As government the ANC is the object of protest, but not protest designed to bring the ruling party to its knees. The ANC is in command of the state, yet fails to definitively counter the deficits that make South Africa’s democracy seem so diluted. Its incredulous and thus far trusting supporters condemn but only rarely punish deployees who do not ‘pass through the eye of the needle’. The ANC and the Regeneration of Political Power unpacks these contradictions. It focuses on four faces of the ANC’s political power – the organisation, the people, political parties and elections, and policy and government – and explores how the ANC has acted since 1994 to continuously regenerate its power. By 2011-12 the power configurations around the ANC were converging to a conjuncture holding vexing uncertainties. This book presents insights into how South African politics – in many ways synonymous with the politics of the ANC – is likely to unfold in years and possibly decades to come.
The African National Congress and Participatory Democracy
The African National Congress and Participatory Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African National Congress and Participatory Democracy write by Heidi Brooks. This book was released on 2019-08-15. The African National Congress and Participatory Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement’s ideas about participatory democracy. It makes particular reference to two key periods: the 1980s ‘people’s power’ movement and the subsequent years of policy formulation from 1990 when the ANC began to design and implement a system of participatory democracy alongside a representative government. Through the examination of historic documents and in-depth interviews with former ANC activists, government officials and those involved in policy development, the author explores the inspiration for the party’s commitment to establishing participatory democracy. The book combines democratic theory and political and intellectual history to look at the role of popular participation as part of a broader trajectory of the ANC’s democratic thought. It critically engages with concepts used in the party’s participatory discourse with a view to deepening our understanding of how ideas have shaped the construction of South Africa’s democracy.
Opposition and Democracy in South Africa
Opposition and Democracy in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opposition and Democracy in South Africa write by Roger Southall. This book was released on 2001. Opposition and Democracy in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nelson Mandela's African National Congress won an overwhelming victory in South Africa's liberation election and repeated that triumph when the electorate went back to the polls in 1999. Whilst testifying to the enduring popularity of the ANC, these results have precipitated an emergent debate about the quality of the country's hard won democracy. In particular, a critique of the new government's performance in office has developed around the notion of the ANC as a "dominant party", one of which for demographic, historical and social reasons is unlikely to be displaced from power in an election for the forseeable future. This has led, in turn, to key questions about the role of the political parties of opposition. The debate about the ANC's dominance therefore becomes a debate about whether democracy in South Africa is just formal or whether it is real.
