Institutions, Ethnicity, and Political Mobilization in South Africa - Hardcover

Piombo, Jessica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230617344 ISBN 13: 9780230617346

Verlag: AIAA, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This book looks at South African experience, which provides a rich example of successful democratization

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Críticas:

'Jessica Piombo offers an innovative and provocative explanation for why post-apartheid South Africa has avoided the siren song of ethnic politics that so many scholars predicted would emerge to dominate its new democracy. Rather than any shifts in the social identifies of its citizens, the incentives implied in its new political institutions have (perhaps unwittingly) led its major political parties to de-emphasize the activation of ethnic identities or the courting of regional minorities, and concentrate instead on the pursuit of national power through broad-based campaign appeals. The irony, however, is that these same institutions also work to insulate the countries elected leaders from day to day citizen influence. Piombo thus offers a new, theoretically rooted perspective on a fundamental conundrum of South Africa's emerging democracy.' - Robert Mattes, Professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town and Director of the Centre for Social Science Research

Reseña del editor:

An investigation of post-apartheid South Africa, which is notable for a history of politicized ethnicity, a complicated network of ethnic groups and for an expectation that ethnic violence would follow the 1994 political transition that did not occur following democratization.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230617344
• ISBN 13: 9780230617346
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278