The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power /
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,...
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
[2011]
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.