Description |
1 online resource (xix, 515 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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. |
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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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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In English. |
Subject |
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
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African National Congress.
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Political science.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Power (Social sciences) -- Africa.
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South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Politics and government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Power (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst01074219
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.
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Indexed Term |
Political Science |
Other Form: |
Print version: African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power. Johannesburg:Wits University Press, c2011. 9781868147816 (OCoLC)762993326 |
ISBN |
9781868145539 (electronic bk.) |
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1868145530 (electronic bk.) |
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9781776141661 (electronic bk.) |
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1776141660 (electronic bk.) |
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9781868147816 |
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1868147819 |
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9781868145423 |
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1868145425 |
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