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Political Parties in South Africa : Do they Undermine or Underpin Democracy? /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword / Holger Dix -- Preface. South Africa's complex party system after the 2016 local government elections / Kgalema Motlanthe -- Introduction / Heather A. Thuynsma -- 1. Whither the ANC's dominance? : Waning electoral dominance, rising hegemonic dominance / Nicola de Jager and Annemie Parkin -- 2. The need to reform the electoral system in South Africa : a constitutional engineering perspective / Albert Venter -- 3. Women, the electoral system and political parties / Yolanda Sadie -- 4. Political parties and political leadership : sewing reconciliation or divisions? / Katabaro Miti -- 5. Do political parties still shift public opinion? / Mari Harris, Stella Fleetwood and Antonia Squara -- 6. Securing their future : using election campaigns to safeguard the party system / Heather A. Thuynsma -- 7. Political parties and their capacity to provide parliamentary oversight / Danwood M. Chirwa and Phindile Ntliziywana -- 8. ANC hegemony : social and economic ramifications for South Africa / Rama Naidu and Sagie Narsiah -- 9. The African National Congress and South Africa's foreign policy and diplomacy : a decolonial African perspective / Siphamandla Zondi -- Conclusion. Moving South Africa forward...? / Heather A. Thuynsma. | |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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