South Africa's Suspended Revolution : Hopes and Prospects.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The state of the nation -- Explaining the transition -- A brief outline of the book -- 2 Governance, political accountability and service delivery -- The construction of the post-apartheid state -- The erosion of political accountability -- Behind the service delivery crisis -- The challenge -- 3 The political economy of development -- The shift to GEAR -- The central contradiction -- Groping towards social democracy -- Acknowledging changes in economic policy -- Contradictory approaches to inequality -- The challenge -- 4 The viability of a sustainable social pact -- Social unionism and South Africa's first social pact -- Understanding the emergence of social pacts -- The potential for a social pact in the post-Polokwane era -- The challenge -- 5 The evolution of state-civil society relations -- Historical context -- Civil society in the democratic era -- The state, civil society and the consolidation of democracy -- The challenge -- 6 South Africa and the world -- Foreign policy and second-generation nationalism -- South Africa's foreign policy, 1994-2008 -- Continuities and discontinuities in foreign policy since 2008 -- The challenge -- 7 What is to be done? -- Reform or transformation -- Reconstructing political accountability to citizens -- Reconciling constitutional rights -- The necessity of leadership -- 8 Reinterpreting democratic and development experiences -- Human agency and its structural conditioning -- Socio-economic justice in transitional democracies -- The battle of interpretation -- A progressive nationalism? -- Frequently used acronyms and abbreviations -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.

South Africa's Suspended Revolution tells the story of South Africa's democratic transition and the prospects for the country to develop a truly inclusive political system.

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