Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State

✍ Scribed by Anthony Butler (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 222
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-5
A Periodization of South African History....Pages 6-29
Historical Debates and Political Analysis....Pages 30-53
Democracy and Apartheid....Pages 54-85
Analysing Democratic Transitions....Pages 86-104
Political Science and the End of Apartheid....Pages 105-126
The Failure of Political Science....Pages 127-155
Conclusions....Pages 156-175
Back Matter....Pages 176-212

✦ Subjects

African Politics; Political Science; Democracy; Human Rights; Political Theory; Comparative Politics

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