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Title:Is South Africa's constitutional democracy being consolidated or eroded?
Author:Lipton, MerleISNI
Year:2014
Periodical:South African Journal of International Affairs (ISSN 1938-0275)
Volume:21
Issue:1
Pages:1-26
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:elite
racism
democracy
political history
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2014.890342
Abstract:This article examines whether, as some claim, post-apartheid South Africa's constitutional democracy is being eroded by, in particular, the alleged 'reracialisation' of policy, replacing the previous institutionalised discrimination against blacks with a black economic empowerment policy that favours the African majority over the white, coloured and Indian minorities. It also discusses whether the work of institutionalists such as D. North, J.J. Wallis and B.R. Weingast (2009) provides a useful theoretical framework for analysing this and other aspects of South Africa's evolution since Union in 1910, when used as a complement to, rather than replacement of, the more usual race/class analyses. It argues that the framework is useful for analysing South Africa's relatively neglected institutional dimension, and for distinguishing fundamental long-term from peripheral trends. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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