Lisa Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3776782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5073-2611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exposure–response relationship of household air pollution on body mass index among women in rural areas of Guatemala, India, Peru and Rwanda
Evidence suggests a significant association between CO exposure and increased odds of being overweight/obese, whereas impacts of PM 2.5 and BC on BMI had null or inverse effects
Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
Data on incidents involving violence against women is becoming increasingly accessible, thanks in part to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and its reauthorizations. Technology facilitates the sharing of data and qualitative experiences in online forums and social media platforms, which has led to growing demand for analytical tools like data mining and machine learning algorithms to handle these large-scale data sources. This research note …
South-South Investments
The formation of BRICS marks a significant aspect of 21st-century globalization. This has spurred optimism in the Global South about offering an alternative to Western dominance. China has aimed to expand its global presence and influence, framing its relations as 'South-South Cooperation'. Brazil and South Africa are crucial partners within BRICS, receiving significant Chinese investment, loans, and assistance. In this article, we critically exa…
Towards a climate of hope
As trusted public institutions, museums could offer crucial opportunities for climate learning. Yet, empirical research on effective approaches is limited. One potential pathway is through strategic framing, given that much research in climate communication suggests the value of specific frames. We developed an innovative climate exhibit, A Climate of Hope (ACOH), guided by five strategic frames: hope, gain, local, community, and playful. To inve…
Public leadership and participation
Studies of public leadership increasingly recognize the importance of collaboration as a mechanism for delivering public policy. Despite theoretical and empirical developments in this direction, insufficient attention has been given to developing country contexts. The literature is also analytically superficial with regard to the involvement of citizens and communities. This article uses qualitative evidence from a South African Western Cape muni…
Grant Review Feedback
The primary goal of the peer review of research grant proposals is to evaluate their quality for the funding agency. An important secondary goal is to provide constructive feedback to applicants for their resubmissions. However, little is known about whether review feedback achieves this goal. In this paper, we present a multi-methods analysis of responses from grant applicants regarding their perceptions of the effectiveness and appropriateness …
The role of intergovernmental relations in response to a wicked problem
Globally, policy environments have become increasingly more complex with the growth in the number of wicked problems, such as that posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In their response to these problems, public administrations have, from necessity, become heavily reliant on their intergovernmental relations systems, as the challenges posed generally require multilevel responses. This paper analyzes the role of intergovernmental relations in shaping t…
An Exploration of the Concept of Community and Its Impact on Participatory Governance Policy and Service Delivery in Poor Areas of Cape Town, South Africa
The inclusion of citizen participation as a means to the equitable delivery of public services has distinguished South Africa’s democratic development trajectory over the last 20 years. While equitable resource allocation remains high on the agenda of more recently democratised states, most of which have highly diverse and unequally resourced populations. Influencing the design of more inclusive participation is the notion of a universal citizens…
BRICS civil society initiatives
In this paper we examine the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) bloc's stated commitment to collective, inclusive development through the creation of the civil society participatory mechanism Civil BRICS. This state-created civil society platform within the bloc purports to shape BRICS policies in favour of the poor. We argue that after a decade of BRICS co-operation, it should be possible to observe policy shifts towards 'çollective'…
BRICS Development Strategies
Participatory Politics
This paper revisits the role of grassroots forms of mobilisation and organisation that act as governance intermediaries between civil society and government. It focuses on two organisations in Khayelitsha, the Khayelitsha Development Forum (KDF), a development organisation formed at grassroots in 1985, and the South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO), a national social movement organisation claiming grassroots forms of mobilisation that…
Agency and Action
Part of determining the democratic content of relationships between citizens and governance networks revolves around understanding how ordinary citizens are able to access governance networks, either directly, or indirectly though representatives. For citizenship to have any meaningful content for ordinary people, especially those who historically have been denied political and socio-economic rights, the promise of participatory democracy must le…
Expressions of Citizenship Through Participation and Protest
All aspects of our democracy in South Africa emphasise participation, either through representatives or through direct channels of participatory governance. According to government, this is a key c
Re-imagining the Social in South Africa
No abstract available
Cultural memory and early civilization
No abstract available
Between supply and demand
Much of the focus in the literature on participatory development has been on the demand side and on the extent to which citizens succeed in pressuring the state to deliver basic services. Less attention has been focused on the supply side of participatory development, namely on how state institutions give effect to development policies. Post-Apartheid South Africa is replete with policies and legislation supporting participatory processes and yet…
Written culture in a colonial context
No abstract available
Citizenship and Social Movements
Survey Methodology in Violence-prone Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
This article discusses the methodological challenges of a service delivery survey in Khayelitsha, atownship in Cape Town, South Africa. The survey aimed to gain a better understanding of the relationshipbetween citizen participation and the environmental challenges facing residents in this urban area.Khayelitsha is a township prone to violence. Encountering violence during fieldwork can alter the wayresearchers execute research, yet this often re…
Nxwisen, ntzarrin or ntzo'lin? Mapping children's respiratory symptoms among indigenous populations in Guatemala
Dream Characteristics of Stock Brokers After a Major Market Downturn
Citizenship, Science and Risk
The Growing Commercialization of Schools
Over the past seven years there has been a tremendous influx of commercial marketing efforts in grades from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Other than anecdotal reports, little is known about the extent of these commercial efforts or about the attitudes of teachers, administrators, students, parents, and the public at large toward this increasing commercial presence. This article is intended to be the first in a series of research projects aimed a…
Bridging the rift
Journal Article Bridging the rift: the new South Africa in Africa Get access Bridging the rift: the new South Africa in Africa. Edited by Larry A. Swatukand David R. Black. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1997. 260pp. Index. £43.95. ISBN0 813 32752 0. Lisa Thompson Lisa Thompson 1University of the Western Cape, Cape Town Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 4, October 1997…
A paper tiger? Political implications of an export-led growth strategy for South Africa
The paper examines the theoretical and empirical debates surrounding the benefits of an export‐led growth strategy. The experience of two newly industrialised countries are analyzed and discussed in relation to South Africa's political and economic position. The writers attempt to show that an uncritical acceptance of ‘recipes’ for economic development, which do not take into account specific domestic political and economic factors, could lead to…
Agency and Action
Part of determining the democratic content of relationships between citizens and governance networks revolves around understanding how ordinary citizens are able to access governance networks, either directly, or indirectly though representatives. For citizenship to have any meaningful content for ordinary people, especially those who historically have been denied political and socio-economic rights, the promise of participatory democracy must le…
BRICS civil society initiatives
In this paper we examine the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) bloc's stated commitment to collective, inclusive development through the creation of the civil society participatory mechanism Civil BRICS. This state-created civil society platform within the bloc purports to shape BRICS policies in favour of the poor. We argue that after a decade of BRICS co-operation, it should be possible to observe policy shifts towards 'çollective'…
Citizenship, Science and Risk
An Exploration of the Concept of Community and Its Impact on Participatory Governance Policy and Service Delivery in Poor Areas of Cape Town, South Africa
The inclusion of citizen participation as a means to the equitable delivery of public services has distinguished South Africa’s democratic development trajectory over the last 20 years. While equitable resource allocation remains high on the agenda of more recently democratised states, most of which have highly diverse and unequally resourced populations. Influencing the design of more inclusive participation is the notion of a universal citizens…
Between supply and demand
Much of the focus in the literature on participatory development has been on the demand side and on the extent to which citizens succeed in pressuring the state to deliver basic services. Less attention has been focused on the supply side of participatory development, namely on how state institutions give effect to development policies. Post-Apartheid South Africa is replete with policies and legislation supporting participatory processes and yet…
The Growing Commercialization of Schools
Over the past seven years there has been a tremendous influx of commercial marketing efforts in grades from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Other than anecdotal reports, little is known about the extent of these commercial efforts or about the attitudes of teachers, administrators, students, parents, and the public at large toward this increasing commercial presence. This article is intended to be the first in a series of research projects aimed a…
BRICS Development Strategies
Participatory Politics
This paper revisits the role of grassroots forms of mobilisation and organisation that act as governance intermediaries between civil society and government. It focuses on two organisations in Khayelitsha, the Khayelitsha Development Forum (KDF), a development organisation formed at grassroots in 1985, and the South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO), a national social movement organisation claiming grassroots forms of mobilisation that…
Of myths, monsters and money
(1991). Of myths, monsters and money: Regime conceptualisation and theory in the Southern African context. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 57-83
Of myths, monsters and money
(1991). Of myths, monsters and money: Regime conceptualisation and theory in the Southern African context. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 57-83
Diplomacy in isolation
Isolated States: A Comparative Analysis by Deon Geldenhuys. Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 1990.764 pp. including notes and index. South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security 1945 ‐ 1988 by James Barber and John Barratt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, 1990. ix plus 398 pp. including appendix, notes and index
A paper tiger? Political implications of an export-led growth strategy for South Africa
The paper examines the theoretical and empirical debates surrounding the benefits of an export‐led growth strategy. The experience of two newly industrialised countries are analyzed and discussed in relation to South Africa's political and economic position. The writers attempt to show that an uncritical acceptance of ‘recipes’ for economic development, which do not take into account specific domestic political and economic factors, could lead to…
Bridging the rift
Journal Article Bridging the rift: the new South Africa in Africa Get access Bridging the rift: the new South Africa in Africa. Edited by Larry A. Swatukand David R. Black. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1997. 260pp. Index. £43.95. ISBN0 813 32752 0. Lisa Thompson Lisa Thompson 1University of the Western Cape, Cape Town Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 4, October 1997…
The Growing Commercialization of Schools
Over the past seven years there has been a tremendous influx of commercial marketing efforts in grades from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Other than anecdotal reports, little is known about the extent of these commercial efforts or about the attitudes of teachers, administrators, students, parents, and the public at large toward this increasing commercial presence. This article is intended to be the first in a series of research projects aimed a…
Dream Characteristics of Stock Brokers After a Major Market Downturn
Citizenship, Science and Risk
Nxwisen, ntzarrin or ntzo'lin? Mapping children's respiratory symptoms among indigenous populations in Guatemala
Survey Methodology in Violence-prone Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
This article discusses the methodological challenges of a service delivery survey in Khayelitsha, atownship in Cape Town, South Africa. The survey aimed to gain a better understanding of the relationshipbetween citizen participation and the environmental challenges facing residents in this urban area.Khayelitsha is a township prone to violence. Encountering violence during fieldwork can alter the wayresearchers execute research, yet this often re…
Citizenship and Social Movements
Written culture in a colonial context
No abstract available
Re-imagining the Social in South Africa
No abstract available
Cultural memory and early civilization
No abstract available
Between supply and demand
Much of the focus in the literature on participatory development has been on the demand side and on the extent to which citizens succeed in pressuring the state to deliver basic services. Less attention has been focused on the supply side of participatory development, namely on how state institutions give effect to development policies. Post-Apartheid South Africa is replete with policies and legislation supporting participatory processes and yet…
Participatory Politics
This paper revisits the role of grassroots forms of mobilisation and organisation that act as governance intermediaries between civil society and government. It focuses on two organisations in Khayelitsha, the Khayelitsha Development Forum (KDF), a development organisation formed at grassroots in 1985, and the South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO), a national social movement organisation claiming grassroots forms of mobilisation that…
Agency and Action
Part of determining the democratic content of relationships between citizens and governance networks revolves around understanding how ordinary citizens are able to access governance networks, either directly, or indirectly though representatives. For citizenship to have any meaningful content for ordinary people, especially those who historically have been denied political and socio-economic rights, the promise of participatory democracy must le…
Expressions of Citizenship Through Participation and Protest
All aspects of our democracy in South Africa emphasise participation, either through representatives or through direct channels of participatory governance. According to government, this is a key c
BRICS Development Strategies
An Exploration of the Concept of Community and Its Impact on Participatory Governance Policy and Service Delivery in Poor Areas of Cape Town, South Africa
The inclusion of citizen participation as a means to the equitable delivery of public services has distinguished South Africa’s democratic development trajectory over the last 20 years. While equitable resource allocation remains high on the agenda of more recently democratised states, most of which have highly diverse and unequally resourced populations. Influencing the design of more inclusive participation is the notion of a universal citizens…
BRICS civil society initiatives
In this paper we examine the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) bloc's stated commitment to collective, inclusive development through the creation of the civil society participatory mechanism Civil BRICS. This state-created civil society platform within the bloc purports to shape BRICS policies in favour of the poor. We argue that after a decade of BRICS co-operation, it should be possible to observe policy shifts towards 'çollective'…
Public leadership and participation
Studies of public leadership increasingly recognize the importance of collaboration as a mechanism for delivering public policy. Despite theoretical and empirical developments in this direction, insufficient attention has been given to developing country contexts. The literature is also analytically superficial with regard to the involvement of citizens and communities. This article uses qualitative evidence from a South African Western Cape muni…
Grant Review Feedback
The primary goal of the peer review of research grant proposals is to evaluate their quality for the funding agency. An important secondary goal is to provide constructive feedback to applicants for their resubmissions. However, little is known about whether review feedback achieves this goal. In this paper, we present a multi-methods analysis of responses from grant applicants regarding their perceptions of the effectiveness and appropriateness …
The role of intergovernmental relations in response to a wicked problem
Globally, policy environments have become increasingly more complex with the growth in the number of wicked problems, such as that posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In their response to these problems, public administrations have, from necessity, become heavily reliant on their intergovernmental relations systems, as the challenges posed generally require multilevel responses. This paper analyzes the role of intergovernmental relations in shaping t…
Towards a climate of hope
As trusted public institutions, museums could offer crucial opportunities for climate learning. Yet, empirical research on effective approaches is limited. One potential pathway is through strategic framing, given that much research in climate communication suggests the value of specific frames. We developed an innovative climate exhibit, A Climate of Hope (ACOH), guided by five strategic frames: hope, gain, local, community, and playful. To inve…
Exposure–response relationship of household air pollution on body mass index among women in rural areas of Guatemala, India, Peru and Rwanda
Evidence suggests a significant association between CO exposure and increased odds of being overweight/obese, whereas impacts of PM 2.5 and BC on BMI had null or inverse effects
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works)