Pass or Fail?: Assessing the Quality of Democracy in South Africa (Regional Integration and Social Cohesion, Band 15) - Softcover

Graham, Victoria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2875743074 ISBN 13: 9782875743077

Verlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In recent years, growing concerns over the strength of South Africa’s democracy appear to indicate a population increasingly disillusioned and dissatisfied with the quality of its implementation. This book assesses the quality of democracy in South Africa after 20 years of democracy in order to ascertain whether or not this growing perception is valid. Since the inception of democracy in 1994 there have been countless procedural and substantive improvements in addressing historically entrenched political, social and economic problems; however, there are serious issues that have emerged relating to the quality of democratic implementation in South Africa. Two existing analytical frameworks of democracy assessment, International IDEA’s State of Democracy framework and Leonardo Morlino’s tool for empirical research on democratic qualities, TODEM, are utilised to assess the quality of South Africa’s rule of law and institutional capacity; representative and accountable government; civil society and popular participation; and freedom and equality after 20 years of democracy. The book concludes cautiously that while South Africa faces many serious and threatening potholes in the road to a fully successful democracy, there is nevertheless much to applaud.

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Victoria Graham is a senior lecturer in International Studies at Monash South Africa and senior research associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. In 2013 she completed her PhD on the quality of democracy in South Africa and has since worked on several democracy-related projects including voting behaviour and populism in Africa.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 2875743074
• ISBN 13: 9782875743077
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 468
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