Carolyn Bassett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3585887 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carolyn Bassett |
| PRENOMES | Carolyn |
| SOBRENOME | Bassett |
| ASSINATURA | BASSETT C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New Brunswick |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa
Africa’s next debt crisis
A new African debt crisis appears imminent, which will have new features because several countries have recently introduced international sovereign bonds. Organisations such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank increasingly acknowledge the risk of such a crisis, but continue to prescribe debt-management strategies based on liberalisation and government spending cuts. Insights drawn from liberals favouring government regulation ident…
From Worker Mobilisation to Policy Engagement
In response to a shifting political environment characterised by political and policy negotiations, South Africa’s largest and most influential trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), incorporated policy research, analysis and engagement into its core activities beginning in the 1990s. This article analyses some of the challenges COSATU faced in this new role by critically examining the contributions of the Na…
An alternative to democratic exclusion? The case for participatory local budgeting in South Africa
This article makes a case for transforming local governance to embrace inclusion and accountability through participatory local budgeting. South Africa’s history of participatory local governance and policy-making, which was incorporated to some extent in post-apartheid institutions of local government, implied some intention to follow Brazil’s ground-breaking participatory local governance model. Yet, despite the possibility that such an approac…
The struggle for transformation in South Africa
South Africa offers a remarkable focal point to explore legacies of liberation, because of the enormity of the task of transforming society to address the legacies of apartheid, and because of the
Legacies of liberation
Your comments, corrections and suggestions for individual articles along with overall suggestions on the special issue were extremely helpful. We are very grateful and thank you.Notes on contributorsCarolyn Bassett is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). She researches and teaches in the areas of political economy of development, globalisation and the political role of labour…
Promised land
South African trade unions and globalisation
In this paper, we assess the South African labour movement's engagement with globalisation in the 1990s and its implications for labour politics in the following decade. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with key informants, we show that, although the labour movement had become committed to a ‘high road’, post-Keynesian restructuring vision by 1993, its representatives failed to pursue that vision consistently in the economic …
South Africa
This article revisits Saul and Gelb's 1981 analysis of South African capital's ‘formative action’, employing their framework to assess how capital hasshaped the economic framework since 1990. I show that once prominentbusiness leaders became committed to non‐racial democracy, the privatesector became enormously influential in shaping the economic programme.The policy changes permitted South African firms to restructure theiroperations largely on …
The Zuma Affair, Labour and the Future of Democracy in South Africa
South Africa's new democracy has been tested by the controversy over the candidacy of Jacob Zuma, who became the successor to President Thabo Mbeki as leader of the African National Congress in December 2007, and is poised to become the country's new president after the 2009 elections. Few social actors had more at stake than organised labour, which found itself sidelined from the policy process by its erstwhile political allies under Mbeki. Labo…
Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia
Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia , Paulos Milkias, Youngstown NY: Cambria Press, 2006, pp. xxii, 364. Paulos Milkias explores Ethiopia's 1974 revolution, focusing on the role of ideas in driving political change. The core of the book explains the political forces that led to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I, ending Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old hereditary feudal order and the installation of a military g…
Labour and Hegemony in South Africa’s First Decade of Majority Rule
Carolyn Bassett’s article “Labour and Hegemony in South Africa’s First Decade of Majority Rule” explores some of the general dilemmas faced by progressive activists; in particular, problems faced by democratic trade unionists in the context of the post-apartheid government in South Africa. The article seeks to explain why a powerful and ostensibly socialist trade union, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), adopted a strategy to co…
The Demise of the Social Contract in South Africa
(2004). The Demise of the Social Contract in South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 543-557
South Africa
This article revisits Saul and Gelb's 1981 analysis of South African capital's ‘formative action’, employing their framework to assess how capital hasshaped the economic framework since 1990. I show that once prominentbusiness leaders became committed to non‐racial democracy, the privatesector became enormously influential in shaping the economic programme.The policy changes permitted South African firms to restructure theiroperations largely on …
Africa’s next debt crisis
A new African debt crisis appears imminent, which will have new features because several countries have recently introduced international sovereign bonds. Organisations such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank increasingly acknowledge the risk of such a crisis, but continue to prescribe debt-management strategies based on liberalisation and government spending cuts. Insights drawn from liberals favouring government regulation ident…
The Zuma Affair, Labour and the Future of Democracy in South Africa
South Africa's new democracy has been tested by the controversy over the candidacy of Jacob Zuma, who became the successor to President Thabo Mbeki as leader of the African National Congress in December 2007, and is poised to become the country's new president after the 2009 elections. Few social actors had more at stake than organised labour, which found itself sidelined from the policy process by its erstwhile political allies under Mbeki. Labo…
Labour and Hegemony in South Africa’s First Decade of Majority Rule
Carolyn Bassett’s article “Labour and Hegemony in South Africa’s First Decade of Majority Rule” explores some of the general dilemmas faced by progressive activists; in particular, problems faced by democratic trade unionists in the context of the post-apartheid government in South Africa. The article seeks to explain why a powerful and ostensibly socialist trade union, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), adopted a strategy to co…
The struggle for transformation in South Africa
South Africa offers a remarkable focal point to explore legacies of liberation, because of the enormity of the task of transforming society to address the legacies of apartheid, and because of the
Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia
Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia , Paulos Milkias, Youngstown NY: Cambria Press, 2006, pp. xxii, 364. Paulos Milkias explores Ethiopia's 1974 revolution, focusing on the role of ideas in driving political change. The core of the book explains the political forces that led to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I, ending Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old hereditary feudal order and the installation of a military g…
The Demise of the Social Contract in South Africa
(2004). The Demise of the Social Contract in South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 543-557
Labour and Hegemony in South Africa’s First Decade of Majority Rule
Carolyn Bassett’s article “Labour and Hegemony in South Africa’s First Decade of Majority Rule” explores some of the general dilemmas faced by progressive activists; in particular, problems faced by democratic trade unionists in the context of the post-apartheid government in South Africa. The article seeks to explain why a powerful and ostensibly socialist trade union, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), adopted a strategy to co…
Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia
Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia , Paulos Milkias, Youngstown NY: Cambria Press, 2006, pp. xxii, 364. Paulos Milkias explores Ethiopia's 1974 revolution, focusing on the role of ideas in driving political change. The core of the book explains the political forces that led to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I, ending Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old hereditary feudal order and the installation of a military g…
South African trade unions and globalisation
In this paper, we assess the South African labour movement's engagement with globalisation in the 1990s and its implications for labour politics in the following decade. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with key informants, we show that, although the labour movement had become committed to a ‘high road’, post-Keynesian restructuring vision by 1993, its representatives failed to pursue that vision consistently in the economic …
South Africa
This article revisits Saul and Gelb's 1981 analysis of South African capital's ‘formative action’, employing their framework to assess how capital hasshaped the economic framework since 1990. I show that once prominentbusiness leaders became committed to non‐racial democracy, the privatesector became enormously influential in shaping the economic programme.The policy changes permitted South African firms to restructure theiroperations largely on …
The Zuma Affair, Labour and the Future of Democracy in South Africa
South Africa's new democracy has been tested by the controversy over the candidacy of Jacob Zuma, who became the successor to President Thabo Mbeki as leader of the African National Congress in December 2007, and is poised to become the country's new president after the 2009 elections. Few social actors had more at stake than organised labour, which found itself sidelined from the policy process by its erstwhile political allies under Mbeki. Labo…
Promised land
Legacies of liberation
Your comments, corrections and suggestions for individual articles along with overall suggestions on the special issue were extremely helpful. We are very grateful and thank you.Notes on contributorsCarolyn Bassett is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). She researches and teaches in the areas of political economy of development, globalisation and the political role of labour…
An alternative to democratic exclusion? The case for participatory local budgeting in South Africa
This article makes a case for transforming local governance to embrace inclusion and accountability through participatory local budgeting. South Africa’s history of participatory local governance and policy-making, which was incorporated to some extent in post-apartheid institutions of local government, implied some intention to follow Brazil’s ground-breaking participatory local governance model. Yet, despite the possibility that such an approac…
The struggle for transformation in South Africa
South Africa offers a remarkable focal point to explore legacies of liberation, because of the enormity of the task of transforming society to address the legacies of apartheid, and because of the
Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa
Africa’s next debt crisis
A new African debt crisis appears imminent, which will have new features because several countries have recently introduced international sovereign bonds. Organisations such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank increasingly acknowledge the risk of such a crisis, but continue to prescribe debt-management strategies based on liberalisation and government spending cuts. Insights drawn from liberals favouring government regulation ident…
From Worker Mobilisation to Policy Engagement
In response to a shifting political environment characterised by political and policy negotiations, South Africa’s largest and most influential trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), incorporated policy research, analysis and engagement into its core activities beginning in the 1990s. This article analyses some of the challenges COSATU faced in this new role by critically examining the contributions of the Na…
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