Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994 - 1999
| dc.contributor.author | Piombo, Jessica | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-29T12:29:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-29T12:29:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-29T12:28:27Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Before the advent of democratic rule in South Africa, most had expected the country to experience an explosion of politicised ethnicity when minority rule was replaced. Yet this has not come to pass, and ethnic political parties have declined in number and influence in post-apartheid South Africa. Instead, between 1994 and 1999, partisan politics developed in a multipolar direction, with some parties embracing racial mobilisation and others attempting to build multi-ethnic, non-racial entities. In most instances, parties have explicitly turned away from mobilisation based on purely ethnic criteria, and instead have embraced more diverse strategies. This paper explains these developments as a product of the ways that political parties have responded to the incentives established by political institutions on the one hand, and the structure of social divisions, on the other. The analysis holds implications for our understanding of the ways in which social cleavages in ethnically divided societies become politically salient, and for the lessons of institutional and constitutional engineering, particularly with respect to how proportional representation systems interact with other factors to shape politics in ethnically diverse societies. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Piombo, J. (2004). <i>Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994 - 1999</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19337 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Piombo, Jessica <i>Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994 - 1999.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19337 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Piombo, J. (2004). Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994-1999. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-7992-2246-1 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Piombo, Jessica AB - Before the advent of democratic rule in South Africa, most had expected the country to experience an explosion of politicised ethnicity when minority rule was replaced. Yet this has not come to pass, and ethnic political parties have declined in number and influence in post-apartheid South Africa. Instead, between 1994 and 1999, partisan politics developed in a multipolar direction, with some parties embracing racial mobilisation and others attempting to build multi-ethnic, non-racial entities. In most instances, parties have explicitly turned away from mobilisation based on purely ethnic criteria, and instead have embraced more diverse strategies. This paper explains these developments as a product of the ways that political parties have responded to the incentives established by political institutions on the one hand, and the structure of social divisions, on the other. The analysis holds implications for our understanding of the ways in which social cleavages in ethnically divided societies become politically salient, and for the lessons of institutional and constitutional engineering, particularly with respect to how proportional representation systems interact with other factors to shape politics in ethnically diverse societies. DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 SM - 0-7992-2246-1 T1 - Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994 - 1999 TI - Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994 - 1999 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19337 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19337 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Piombo J. Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994 - 1999. 2004 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19337 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | politics | |
| dc.subject.other | demographics | |
| dc.subject.other | Ethnic mobilization | |
| dc.title | Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994 - 1999 | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |