The State, Civil Society, and Democratic Transition in South Africa

Kotzè, Hennie; Toit, Pierre du

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“…Observers differ in their assessment of the prospects for the development of civil society, however. Kotze and Du Toit (1995) argue that civil society has not developed in South Africa. Instead, organizations continue to be associated with partisan and adversarial relationships that developed under apartheid.…”

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Maintaining Momentum: An Overview of South Africa's Progress Toward Democratic Consolidation

Griffiths¹

1998

Southeastern Political Review

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South Africa's first all‐race elections in April 1994 marked the beginning of the country's democratic consolidation efforts. Consolidation involves the polity's acceptance of democratic processes, the establishment of the rule of law, institutional reform, the emergence of civil and political society, and economic progress. Although there has been substantial progress toward these requirements, deep political divisions and assuring economic growth and redistribution are among the major challenges facing South Africa. This article reviews South Africa's transition to democracy and assesses the country's progress toward democratic consolidation.

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Maintaining Momentum: An Overview of South Africa's Progress Toward Democratic Consolidation

Griffiths¹

1998

Southeastern Political Review

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“…After the seizure of political power, or negotiations that facilitated its transfer, the ANC, as the liberator, was charged with leading the complete socio-economic rebirth of society through transferring wealth from the rich to the poor (Mkhabela 2016). To this end, a developmental state was created to actively guide economic development to meet the needs of the people -the previously marginalised in particular (Kotze & Du Toit 1995). Such an understanding of South African history makes clear that the development and change that the previously oppressed required was both sustained and substantive, as they sought development that goes over and beyond the extension of civic rights (Sen 2000).…”

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Centring the subaltern: Interpreting mainstream media messages in a fractured country

Ponono

2018

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This article reports on a study that examined the interpretation of mainstream media messages by young people living in Joza, Grahamstown, South Africa. The investigation was prompted by the failure of mainstream media to predict the ANC retaining its electoral dominance in the 2014 national general elections. Instead of falling to the margins as anticipated, the ANC, in areas such as Joza, outstripped its previous share of the vote. The study asked why people living in the township had diverged so drastically from mainstream media predictions. As a theoretical departure point, the study considered that the variation of a black South African township voice is missed by mainstream media because of the sector's subscription to the idea of a unitary public, which conceals the multiplicity of publics in a fractured country. Through a combination of interviews and participant observation, one of the major findings is that young people in the township of Joza demonstrated that they chose to ignore the messages about the corruption of the ANC. The data suggests that they did so not because of overt racial solidarity, but due to the fact that in a context of high inequality and continued limitations on economic emancipation, the party shone brightly as a vehicle for economic development.

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“…The same can be said about elite's racial or ethnic backgrounds, at least in Western and Latin American contexts, with the important exception of elite studies about the South African case (e.g. Higley and Burton, 2006;Kalanti and Manor, 2005;Kotzé and Toit, 1995;Lieberman, 2001Lieberman, , 2003.…”

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Elite theory

López¹

2013

Sociopedia

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This article reviews contemporary elite theory in political sociology and political science. Elite theory is based on the assumption that elite behavior has a causal relationship with general patterns of state-society relations. The article presents classical concepts of elite theory, such as elite inevitability and elite circulation, while privileging contemporary challenges and trends in elite theory. The discussion addresses elite origins of democracy and elite origins of the welfare state, as well as elites/non-elites interdependence.keywords democracy ◆ elites ◆ elite theory ◆ new elitism ◆ welfare state

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The State, Civil Society, and Democratic Transition in South Africa

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

Maintaining Momentum: An Overview of South Africa's Progress Toward Democratic Consolidation

Maintaining Momentum: An Overview of South Africa's Progress Toward Democratic Consolidation

Centring the subaltern: Interpreting mainstream media messages in a fractured country

Elite theory

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