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The African National Congress and the regeneration of political power
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The African National Congress and the regeneration of political power / Susan Booysen.
ISBN
9781868145539
1868145530
9781776141661
1776141660
9781868147816
1868147819
9781868145423
1868145425
9781868149493
1868149495
Publication
Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2011]
Copyright Notice Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 515 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
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, and policy and government - and explores how, since 1994, it has acted to continuously regenerate its power.
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KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection. OCLC KB.
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Print version: Booysen, Susan. African National Congress and the regeneration of political power. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, ©2011
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2024
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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