The African National Congress and the regeneration of political power
The African National Congress is light years beyond the liberation movement of old. It remains a juggernaut, but its control and dominance are no longer watertight. The ANC lives the contradictions of weaknesses, cracks and factions while retaining its colossal status. As a party-movement it draws o...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419815306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
