Susan Booysen

Precarious Power (eBook, ePUB)

Compliance and discontent under Ramaphosa's ANC

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What happens in the aftermath of a former liberation movement-political party losing its dominance but surviving because no opposition party is able to succeed it? The trends are established. South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) is in decline, its hegemony weakened, its legitimacy diluted. President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment suspended its electoral decline, but heightened internal organisational tensions between those who would deepen its acquired status as corrupt and captured, and those who would remodel it as redeemable. These are the knowns of South African politics; what will evolve is less certain. Political scientist Susan Booysen uses in-depth research and analysis to distil that which is bound to shape South Africa's political future. She focusses on contradictory party politics; internal ANC dissent that is veiled for the sake of retaining electoral following; populist policy-making, protest politics and the use of soft law to mollify angry citizens and avoid further protests. Her analysis of the ANC's gentle stance on captured state institutions lest the Zumaist malcontents rebel reveals a weak president wavering on a tightrope between serving the needs of the organisation and those of the nation. Precarious Power is the name of the political game, for the foreseeable future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776146475
• Artikelnr.: 59945918

Autorenporträt

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.