ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture
| dc.contributor.author | Reddy, Thiven | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-07T08:49:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-07T08:49:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines the evolving political culture in contemporary South Africa. It draws on elite culture, neo-patrimonialism, and revisionist institutionalist perspectives to understand state weaknesses and patterns of politicization confronting South Africa’s developing democracy. While it accepts that the democratic political system and its constituent institutions are in place and function formally, a discourse of violence or threats of violence to rival political actors is commonplace. The article is structured as follows: the first part describes the increased social mobilization of disgruntled citizens who rely on a discourse of violence rather than articulating grievances through political structures; the second part focuses on those factors that ferment this kind of political culture. The article discusses the deepening economic inequality and its expression in class conflict under conditions of democracy. It then discusses the politics of the ANC as a dominant party, and in particular intra-elite conflict, ANC factionalization, and the consequent weakening of state institutions. These factors, the paper argues, encourage a politics in which political society, rather than civil society, becomes the main terrain for expressing conflict. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier | 10.1080/02589346.2010.522329 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Reddy, T. (2010). ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture. <i>Politikon</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21714 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Reddy, Thiven "ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture." <i>Politikon</i> (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21714 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Reddy, T. (2010). ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture. Politikon, 37(2-3), 185-206. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258-9346 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Reddy, Thiven AB - This article examines the evolving political culture in contemporary South Africa. It draws on elite culture, neo-patrimonialism, and revisionist institutionalist perspectives to understand state weaknesses and patterns of politicization confronting South Africa’s developing democracy. While it accepts that the democratic political system and its constituent institutions are in place and function formally, a discourse of violence or threats of violence to rival political actors is commonplace. The article is structured as follows: the first part describes the increased social mobilization of disgruntled citizens who rely on a discourse of violence rather than articulating grievances through political structures; the second part focuses on those factors that ferment this kind of political culture. The article discusses the deepening economic inequality and its expression in class conflict under conditions of democracy. It then discusses the politics of the ANC as a dominant party, and in particular intra-elite conflict, ANC factionalization, and the consequent weakening of state institutions. These factors, the paper argues, encourage a politics in which political society, rather than civil society, becomes the main terrain for expressing conflict. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Politikon KW - ANC KW - social mobilization KW - political society KW - South Africa's political culture LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 SM - 0258-9346 T1 - ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture TI - ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21714 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21714 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589346.2010.522329 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Reddy T. ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture. Politikon. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21714. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Political Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Politikon | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpsa20/current | |
| dc.subject | ANC | |
| dc.subject | social mobilization | |
| dc.subject | political society | |
| dc.subject | South Africa's political culture | |
| dc.title | ANC Decline, Social Mobilization and Political Society: Understanding South Africa's Evolving Political Culture | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |