African National Congress and the Regene

Informationen zum Autor Susan Booysen is an analyst and media commentator is Director of Research at the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Susan Booysen is an analyst and media commentator is Director of Research at the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her two major books on the ANC are The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power (2011) and Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma (2015), both published by Wits University Press. Klappentext In her role as an observer-researcher, the author negotiates the route between counter-truths, assessing how the ANC's hegemonic power project has materialised. The book is constructed around the framework of political power, and its analysis focuses on how the ANC, in twenty years of political power, has acted to shape, maintain and regenerate power in relation to its internal structures and processes, opposition parties, people, government and the state. Zusammenfassung In the twenty years of transitional and democratic politics in South Africa! Susan Booysen constantly traversed two worlds! as direct observer and analyst-researcher. Inhaltsverzeichnis ANC movement-party in power: Introduction - ANC pathways to claiming! consolidating and regenerating political power; from Polokwane to Durban to Mangaung - aluta continua. ANC power and the power of the people: The ANC and the multiple faces of people's power; power through the ballot and the brick; public participation - the power of cooperation! complicity and co-optation. ANC in party politics and elections: Electoral power to the ANC - liberation! consolidation! expansion! decline; floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy; demise of the (New) National Party - ultimate ANC victory; Congress of the People (Cope) - countered and cowered by the ANC. ANC and state power: State institutions as site of struggle in the ANC wars; the South African presidency between centralisation and centralism; policy! succession and the contest for 'a turn to the left'; Governance and critical conjuncture for the ANC. ...

Klappentext
In her role as an observer-researcher, the author negotiates the route between counter-truths, assessing how the ANC's hegemonic power project has materialised. The book is constructed around the framework of political power, and its analysis focuses on how the ANC, in twenty years of political power, has acted to shape, maintain and regenerate power in relation to its internal structures and processes, opposition parties, people, government and the state.

Zusammenfassung
In the twenty years of transitional and democratic politics in South Africa, Susan Booysen constantly traversed two worlds, as direct observer and analyst-researcher.

Inhalt
ANC movement-party in power: Introduction - ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power; from Polokwane to Durban to Mangaung - aluta continua. ANC power and the power of the people: The ANC and the multiple faces of people's power; power through the ballot and the brick; public participation - the power of cooperation, complicity and co-optation. ANC in party politics and elections: Electoral power to the ANC - liberation, consolidation, expansion, decline; floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy; demise of the (New) National Party - ultimate ANC victory; Congress of the People (Cope) - countered and cowered by the ANC. ANC and state power: State institutions as site of struggle in the ANC wars; the South African presidency between centralisation and centralism; policy, succession and the contest for 'a turn to the left'; Governance and critical conjuncture for the ANC.

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