The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power / Susan Booysen.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2011]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©[2011]Description: 1 online resource (536 pages): illustrations, charts, figures, tablesContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781776141661
- African National Congress
- African National Congress
- Power (Social sciences)
- Politics and government
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
- Politics and government
- Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) -- Afrique
- Power (Social sciences) -- Africa
- South Africa
- Africa
- Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960-
- South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
- Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
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.
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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.
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