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1 online resource (xix, 515 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables |
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polychrome |
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BiblioLabs.
Books.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The ANC is a party-movement that draws on its liberation credentials yet is conflicted by a multitude of weaknesses, factions and internal succession battles. Booysen constructs her analysis around the ANC's four faces of political power - organisation, people, political parties and elections, and policy and government - and explores how, since 1994, it has acted to continuously regenerate its power. |
| Contents |
Introduction : ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- Power through the ballot and the brick -- Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation -- Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds -- Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party -- Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- Between centralisation and centralism : the Presidency of South Africa -- Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- ANC at a critical conjuncture : movement, people, elections, governance. |
| Note |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
African National Congress.
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African National Congress. |
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Power (Social sciences) -- Africa.
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Africa. |
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Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
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Politics and government. |
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1960- |
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South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
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South Africa. |
| Chronological Term |
1994- |
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Since 1960 |
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Political Science |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Booysen, Susan. African National Congress and the regeneration of political power. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, ©2011 9781868145423 |
| ISBN |
9781868145539 (electronic book) |
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1868145530 (electronic book) |
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9781776141661 (electronic book) |
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1776141660 (electronic book) |
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9781868147816 (electronic book) |
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1868147819 (electronic book) |
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9781868145423 (paperback) |
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1868145425 (paperback) |
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9781868149493 |
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1868149495 |
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