South Africa
Democracy Without the People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288517 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Mattes (0000-0003-0567-9385, corresponding author), Robert B Mattes |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-36 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2002.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2037712206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 2 |
Perhaps more than any other democratizing country, South Africa generates widely differing assessments of the present state and likely future prospects of its democracy. If one takes the long view--comparing South Africa today to where it was just 12 years ago--it is difficult not to be enthusiastic about its accomplishments and its future. South Africa successfully emerged from the shadow of apparently irreconcilable conflict and unavoidable racial civil war to create a common nation. It has negotiated two democratic constitutions and has held four successful nationwide elections for national and local government. On the economic front, it has avoided the triple-digit inflation that many feared would accompany a populist economic strategy of redistribution and government intervention. It has stabilized the expanding debt and reversed the double-digit inflation inherited from the apartheid-era government. There have been impressive gains in employment opportunities and income for the growing black middle class, and poor blacks have seen unprecedented improvements in access to basic necessities
Debt · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Middle class · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Redistribution (election · Shadow (psychology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
Integrated community development/conflict resolution strategies as ‘peace building potential’ in South Africa and Northern Ireland
Bridging the disconnection between donor support and democratisation in South Africa
Public Perceptions of Corruption and Democratic Dissatisfaction in South Africa’s Third Decade of Democracy
Cash Transfers and Citizenship
Not created equal
The Political Economy of Identity Politics
External actors and the relative autonomy of the ruling elite in post-Untac Cambodia
Leading from behind
Transformation to an Equitable Socioeconomic Dispensation
Race and non-electoral political participation in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
The ‘politics of poverty' in a post-apartheid South African metropolis
Mapping the Radio KC community
Institutional capital, urban poverty and household wealth in Cape Town
Top-Down or Bottom-Up
Civil Society after Democracy
The Formation of the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
Scientists as lobbyists? How science can make its voice heard in the South African policy‐making arena
South Africa
Trust in the Post-Apartheid Government of South Africa
Post-agreement societies and inter-ethnic competition
Between vigilantism and bureaucracy
Preventing and Managing Electoral Violence as a Threat to Democracy in South Africa
Revisiting Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The negative and positive impacts of HIV/Aids on democracy in South Africa
Pakatan Rakyat
Parity of Esteem”
Political Institutions in New Democracies
The Social and Political Implications of Demographic Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa
More public and less experts
Global Flows, Local Appropriations
Why Post-Settlement Settlements
The Zuma Watershed
Democracy by Accident
Race, Class and Underlying Trends in Party Support in South Africa
Electoral regimes and party-switching
Rules and Rituals
South Africa's Political Futures
Local-Level Accountability in a Dominant Party System
The ANC and power concentration in South Africa
Why there is no party ban in the South African constitution
Women's Mobilization and Gender Outcomes in Transitions to Democracy
The ‘Born Frees
Political Trust, Efficacy and Engagement in Challenging Times
Space Matters
Les Ward Committees À Msunduzi
Systematic, Quantitative Political Science in South Africa
Did Floor-Crossing Alienate South African Voters? Evidence from Municipal Legislatures
South Africa's transition to democracy and the 'change industry
The Dynamics of Political Trust in South Africa, 1995–2006
The United Nations world summits and civil society activism
Democracy and the politics of power alternation in Africa
The Freedom Front Plus
The role of parliament in South Africacs foreign policy development process
Perspectives on democratic consolidation in Southern Africa
La pauvreté en débat
Analysing micro-assistance to democracy
Non-Electoral Executive Turnover and Low-Capacity Democracy in Southern Africa
The government of poverty and the arts of survival
After the TRC
Talking to the Polls
| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,54 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |