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The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power /

The ANC is a party-movement that draws on its liberation credentials yet is conflicted by a multitude of weaknesses, factions and internal succession battles. Booysen constructs her analysis around the ANC's four faces of political power - organisation, people, political parties and elections,...

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Autor principal: Booysen, Susan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power
  • Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung
  • The ANC and its pillars of people's power
  • Power through the ballot and the brick
  • Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation
  • Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds
  • Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy
  • Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party
  • Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope)
  • State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars
  • Between centralisation and centralism : the Presidency of South Africa
  • Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity
  • ANC at a critical conjuncture : movement, people, elections, governance.