Albert Venter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4248056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Venter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Venter |
| SIGNATURE | VENTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zuid-Afrikaans Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Designing an executive for South Africa
This article considers the type of executive that should be designed for the permanent constitutional text of South Africa. The author argues for a package of constitutional measures that will facilitate coalition government in order to advance the vision of a consensus democracy. This package should include: scrapping the imperative mandate of parliamentarians, maintaining the proportional system of representation but adding the possibility of a…
Whither South Africa's new democracy
Ministerial responsibility
This article inquires into the practice of ministerial responsibility in South Africa in the period 1948–1993. The question whether Britain presents an exemplary case of ministerial responsibility for departmental failures, leading to departure from office, is specifically addressed. Furthermore, South African observance of ministerial responsibility since 1948 is examined by reviewing ministerial departures from cabinet due to some form of press…
Book notes/Boeknotas
RACE RELATIONS SURVEY. 1987/88. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations. Index. Pp. 991. Alan R. Ball. 1987. BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES: THE EMERGENCE OF A MODERN PARTY SYSTEM. London: Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 268. Johann Mouton (red.) 1986. SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND POWER/SOSIALE WETENSKAP, MAATSKAPPY EN MAG. Pretoria: RGN. Pp. 144. Tzippi Hoffman en Alan Fischer. 1989. THE JEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT FUTURE? Johannesburg: Southern …
Book notes/Boeknotas
Gastrow, Shelagh 1988. WHO'S WHO IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS NUMBER TWO. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. (pp. 365. R25,95.) Paxton, John (Ed.) THE STATESMAN'S YEAR‐BOOK 1987–88, 124th Edition. London: Macmillan Reference Books, 1987, 1695 pp. Mueller, Dennis C. (Ed.) 1983. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH. New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. 283. £19,50. Von Laue, Theodor. 1988. THE WORLD REVOLUTION OF WESTERNIZATION. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P…
Allan Boesak and the black immanentization of the eschaton
This paper is an analysis of the theological politics of Allan Boesak, as presented in his book Black and Reformed. The theoretical sensitivity and framework of analysis is provided by the political theory of Eric Voegelin. The analysis specifically tries to answer the question whether Boesak's theological politics tries to create an immanent dreamworld of earthly felicity, which dissolves the tensions of human existence. The article concludes th…
Leierskapinskiklikheid in diepverdeelde samelewings
In this paper some methodological and substantive aspects of Arend Lijphart's theory of consociational democracy are analysed. The theoretical element of his theory is discussed according to the criteria for a factor‐theory as laid down by Meehan. Three of the four main characteristics of a consociational democracy, ie grand coalition government, segmental autonomy and the principle of proportional value allocation are subsequently delineated in …
Ministerial responsibility
This article inquires into the practice of ministerial responsibility in South Africa in the period 1948–1993. The question whether Britain presents an exemplary case of ministerial responsibility for departmental failures, leading to departure from office, is specifically addressed. Furthermore, South African observance of ministerial responsibility since 1948 is examined by reviewing ministerial departures from cabinet due to some form of press…
Leierskapinskiklikheid in diepverdeelde samelewings
In this paper some methodological and substantive aspects of Arend Lijphart's theory of consociational democracy are analysed. The theoretical element of his theory is discussed according to the criteria for a factor‐theory as laid down by Meehan. Three of the four main characteristics of a consociational democracy, ie grand coalition government, segmental autonomy and the principle of proportional value allocation are subsequently delineated in …
Leierskapinskiklikheid in diepverdeelde samelewings
In this paper some methodological and substantive aspects of Arend Lijphart's theory of consociational democracy are analysed. The theoretical element of his theory is discussed according to the criteria for a factor‐theory as laid down by Meehan. Three of the four main characteristics of a consociational democracy, ie grand coalition government, segmental autonomy and the principle of proportional value allocation are subsequently delineated in …
Book notes/Boeknotas
Gastrow, Shelagh 1988. WHO'S WHO IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS NUMBER TWO. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. (pp. 365. R25,95.) Paxton, John (Ed.) THE STATESMAN'S YEAR‐BOOK 1987–88, 124th Edition. London: Macmillan Reference Books, 1987, 1695 pp. Mueller, Dennis C. (Ed.) 1983. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH. New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. 283. £19,50. Von Laue, Theodor. 1988. THE WORLD REVOLUTION OF WESTERNIZATION. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P…
Allan Boesak and the black immanentization of the eschaton
This paper is an analysis of the theological politics of Allan Boesak, as presented in his book Black and Reformed. The theoretical sensitivity and framework of analysis is provided by the political theory of Eric Voegelin. The analysis specifically tries to answer the question whether Boesak's theological politics tries to create an immanent dreamworld of earthly felicity, which dissolves the tensions of human existence. The article concludes th…
Book notes/Boeknotas
RACE RELATIONS SURVEY. 1987/88. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations. Index. Pp. 991. Alan R. Ball. 1987. BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES: THE EMERGENCE OF A MODERN PARTY SYSTEM. London: Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 268. Johann Mouton (red.) 1986. SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND POWER/SOSIALE WETENSKAP, MAATSKAPPY EN MAG. Pretoria: RGN. Pp. 144. Tzippi Hoffman en Alan Fischer. 1989. THE JEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT FUTURE? Johannesburg: Southern …
Ministerial responsibility
This article inquires into the practice of ministerial responsibility in South Africa in the period 1948–1993. The question whether Britain presents an exemplary case of ministerial responsibility for departmental failures, leading to departure from office, is specifically addressed. Furthermore, South African observance of ministerial responsibility since 1948 is examined by reviewing ministerial departures from cabinet due to some form of press…
Whither South Africa's new democracy
Designing an executive for South Africa
This article considers the type of executive that should be designed for the permanent constitutional text of South Africa. The author argues for a package of constitutional measures that will facilitate coalition government in order to advance the vision of a consensus democracy. This package should include: scrapping the imperative mandate of parliamentarians, maintaining the proportional system of representation but adding the possibility of a…
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