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The African National Congress and participatory democracyfrom people's power to public policy /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The African National Congress and participatory democracyby Heidi Brooks.
Reminder of title:	from people's power to public policy /
Author:	Brooks, Heidi.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xvi, 244 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Political partiesHistory.South Africa
Subject:	South AfricaEconomic policy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25744-6
ISBN:	9783030257446$q(electronic bk.)

The African National Congress and participatory democracyfrom people's power to public policy /
Brooks, Heidi.

The African National Congress and participatory democracyfrom people's power to public policy /[electronic resource] :by Heidi Brooks. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xvi, 244 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - The theories, concepts and practices of democracy. - Theories, concepts and practices of democracy..

1. Introduction: A Battle of Ideas -- 2. Participation in the History of ANC Democratic Thought -- 3. Discourses of 'People's Power' -- 4. The People Shall Govern: The Codification of Ideas -- 5. Post-1994 Policy and Movement Discourse -- 6. Conclusion: The Power of Ideas.

This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement's ideas about participatory democracy. It makes particular reference to two key periods: the 1980s 'people's power' movement and the subsequent years of policy formulation from 1990 when the ANC began to design and implement a system of participatory democracy alongside a representative government. Through the examination of historic documents and in-depth interviews with former ANC activists, government officials and those involved in policy development, the author explores the inspiration for the party's commitment to establishing participatory democracy. The book combines democratic theory and political and intellectual history to look at the role of popular participation as part of a broader trajectory of the ANC's democratic thought. It critically engages with concepts used in the party's participatory discourse with a view to deepening our understanding of how ideas have shaped the construction of South Africa's democracy. Heidi Brooks is Senior Lecturer in Political and International Studies at IIE MSA and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has produced several publications on the development of democratic thought in the ANC and on conceptions of democracy in South Africa.

ISBN: 9783030257446$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-25744-6doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

635313
African National Congress.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

884761
Political parties
--History.--South AfricaSubjects--Geographical Terms:

391901
South Africa
--Economic policy.

LC Class. No.: JQ1998.A4 / B76 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 324.268

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