Merle Lipton

Biographic Data

ID3585818
NAMEMerle Lipton
GIVEN NAMESMerle
FAMILY NAMELipton
SIGNATURELIPTON M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sussex
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS58
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX4

  • Are the BRICS reformers, revolutionaries, or counter-revolutionaries

    Merle LiptonARTICLESouth African Journal of…2017Cited by: 2

    This article argues that the five-nation BRICS group has played a significant role in pressing for reforms in the Western-dominated global order, as well as mounting some revolutionary (and as yet unresolved) challenges to that order. However, it also maintains that there is another (underestimated) aspect to the BRICS' role, viz, their conservative or counter-revolutionary challenges to liberal trends towards democracy, human rights and the prog…

  • Is South Africa's constitutional democracy being consolidated or eroded

    Merle LiptonARTICLESouth African Journal of…2014Cited by: 1

    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 North, Wallis a…

  • Understanding South Africa's foreign policy: The perplexing case of Zimbabwe

    Merle LiptonARTICLESouth African Journal of…2009Cited by: 7References: 3

    Many who have admired the African National Congress are confused and dismayed by post-apartheid South Africa's foreign policy on human rights and good governance, exemplified by its most important policy test to date, viz. Zimbabwe. It is argued below that understanding this policy in terms of the widely-used explanation that it represents ‘a shift from idealism to realism’ is unsatisfactory. This state-centric framework, focused on ‘national’ in…

  • Liberals, Marxists, and Nationalists: Competing Interpretations of South African History

    Open AccessMerle LiptonBOOKLiberals, Marxists, and…2007

    This book examines conflicting interpretations of the origins, evolution, and end of apartheid. Lipton asserts that it began around 1970 with relatively non-violent reform, and ended following Preside

  • White Liberals, ‘the Left’ and the New Africanist Elite in South Africa

    Open AccessMerle LiptonARTICLEInternational Affairs2000Cited by: 1

    Journal Article White Liberals, ‘the Left’ and the New Africanist Elite in South Africa Get access Merle Lipton Merle Lipton 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 333–343, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00138 Published: 16 December 2002

  • Agro-Pessimism and Agro-Realism: Land, Labour, and Livelihoods in South Africa's Poorest and Most Northern Province

    Open AccessTim Clynick, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998

    contextualised by a further two excellent agro-economic and environmental analysis of farming systems in this zone) suggest a short, easy answer to all three: no to the first and second, and, to the third, nothing or very little. Consider the unanimity of the findings of these four very methodologically (and ideologically) diverse studies contained in part two of volume two: 1. A model simulating redistributive land reform for all African househo…

  • Populist Agrarian Visions and Rural Livelihoods in Kwazulu-Natal

    C Mather, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998

    The introduction to an edited collection normally sets the context and provides support for the arguments presented in the contributions that follow. Michael Lipton's, Frank Ellis', and Merle Lipton's introduction to Land, Labour and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa, Volume 2: KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Province plays a rather different role in that their position is largely not supported by the contributors to the KwaZulu-Natal section of this …

  • Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture in the Western Cape

    Open AccessW Beinart, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998

    This volume results from a major and well-funded research project into strategies for land reform and the enhancement of rural livelihoods in South Africa, in which Merle and Michael Lipton have played an important coordinating role. A formidable array of researchers have made significant inputs. The chapters represent the work of some of the best informed specialists on South African rural and agrarian issues. The Western Cape is unusual in the …

  • The Democratic Transition and Rural Livelihoods

    Open AccessDavid Lincoln, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998Cited by: 1

  • Making Democracy Work: A Framework for Macroeconomic Policy in South Africa. A Report from the Macro-Economic Research Group to the Members of the Democratic Movement of South Africa

    David N Plank, Merle Lipton et al.ARTICLEAfrican Economic History1995

  • Creating rural livelihoods: Some lessons for South Africa from experience elsewhere

    Open AccessMichael Lipton, Merle LiptonARTICLEWorld Development1993Cited by: 5References: 11

  • The anti‐politics machine: Development’, depoliticization and bureaucratic state power in Lesotho, by J Ferguson

    Merle LiptonARTICLEDevelopment Southern Africa1993

    1993). The anti‐politics machine: ‘Development’, depoliticization and bureaucratic state power in Lesotho, by J Ferguson. Development Southern Africa: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 603-609

  • The great economic debate: The radicals guide to the South African economy and Redistribution: how can it work in South Africa

    Merle LiptonARTICLEInternational Affairs1992

    Journal Article The great economic debate: the radicals guide to the South African economy and Redistribution: how can it work in South Africa? Get access The great economic debate: the radicals guide to the South African economy. By Peter Moll. Johannesburg: Skotaville. 1991. 154pp. Pb.: R37. ISBN 0 94747 9627 9.Redistribution: how can it work in South Africa?Edited by Peter Moll, Nicoli Natrassand Lieb Loots. Cape Town: David Phillip. 1991. 150…

  • Capitalism and apartheid: South Africa, 1910-1986

    Merle LiptonBOOKCapitalism and apartheid1986Cited by: 24

  • Reply to Tomlinson and Bisschop

    Merle LiptonARTICLESocial Dynamics1980

  • The Quail Report: Feb 8 80 (Ciskei Commission)

    Merle LiptonARTICLEInternational Affairs1980

    Journal Article The Quail Report: Feb 8 80 (Ciskei Commission) Get access The Quail Report: Feb 8 80. (Ciskei Commission). Pretoria: Conference Associates. 1980. 328 pp. Pb. Merle Lipton Merle Lipton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 4, September 1980, Pages 744–745, https://doi.org/10.2307/2618242 Published: 01 October 1980

  • Some realities of African agriculture: A reply to professor Tomlinson and professor Bisschop

    Merle LiptonARTICLESocial Dynamics1979

  • The Debate About South Africa: Neo-Marxists and Neo-Liberals

    Merle LiptonARTICLEAfrican Affairs1979Cited by: 4

    Journal Article THE DEBATE ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA: NEO-MARXISTS AND NEO-LIBERALS Get access MERLE LIPTON MERLE LIPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 310, January 1979, Pages 57–80, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097081 Published: 01 January 1979

  • Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development

    Rodney Wilson, Merle LiptonREVIEWThe Economic Journal1977Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development Get access Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development. By M. Lipton. (London: Maurice Temple Smith, 1977. Pp. 467. £9.50.) Rodney Wilson Rodney Wilson University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 347, 1 September 1977, Pages 611–613, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231583 Publi…

  • Race, Industrialization and Social Change in South Africa: A Comment

    Merle LiptonARTICLEAfrican Affairs1977

    Journal Article RACE, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOUTH AFRICA: A COMMENT Get access MERLE LIPTON MERLE LIPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 302, January 1977, Pages 105–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096799 Published: 01 January 1977

  • South Africa: Economic Growth and Political Change

    Merle LiptonARTICLEInternational Affairs1976

    Journal Article South Africa: Economic Growth and Political Change Get access South Africa: Economic Growth and Political Change. With comparative studies of Chile, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Edited by Adrian Leftwich. London: Allison and Busby. 1974. 360 pp. £8.00. Merle Lipton Merle Lipton 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 1976, Pages 66…

  • India's Development Experience

    Merle Lipton, T Singh et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1975Cited by: 4

    Journal Article India's Development Experience Get access India's Development Experience. By T. SINGH. (London: Macmillan, 1975. Pp. xx+ 458. £8.00.) M. Lipton M. Lipton Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 85, Issue 340, 1 December 1975, Pages 953–956, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230660 Published: 01 December 1975

  • White farming: A case study of change in South Africa

    Merle LiptonARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth &…1974Cited by: 4References: 3

  • The Oxford History of South Africa. Vol. I: South Africa to 1870 and The Oxford History of South Africa. Vol II: South Africa 1870–1966

    Merle LiptonARTICLEInternational Affairs1973

    The Oxford History of South Africa. Vol. I: South Africa to 1870 and The Oxford History of South Africa. Vol II: South Africa 1870–1966 The Oxford History of South Africa. Ed. by Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson. Vol. I: South Africa to 1870. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1969. 502 pp. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £3.75. Vol II: South Africa 1870–1966. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1971. 584 pp. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £5.00. Merle Lipton Merle Lipton Search for …

  • Modernizing Racial Domination: South Africa's Political Dynamics and South Africa: Sociological Perspectives

    Merle LiptonARTICLEInternational Affairs1972

    Journal Article Modernizing Racial Domination: South Africa's Political Dynamics and South Africa: Sociological Perspectives Get access Modernizing Racial Domination: South Africa's Political Dynamics. By Heribert Adam. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. 1971. 203 pp. Bibliog. Index. $8.00. £3.80.South Africa: Sociological Perspectives. Ed. by Heribert Adam. London: New York, Toronto, Cape Town: Oxford University Press…