South Africa's Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects

Contents

Contents Preface ix 1 Introduction 1 The state of the nation 4 Explaining the transition 25 A brief outline of the book 29 2 Governance, political accountability and service delivery 35 The construction of the post-apartheid state 37 The erosion of political accountability 54 Behind the service delivery crisis 60 The challenge 70 3 The political economy of development 73 The shift to GEAR 76 The central contradiction 91 Groping towards social democracy 93 Acknowledging changes in economic policy 102 Contradictory approaches to inequality 105 The challenge 107 4 The viability of a sustainable social pact 111 Social unionism and South Africa’s first social pact 113 Understanding the emergence of social pacts 122 The potential for a social pact in the post-Polokwane era 128 The challenge 136 5 The evolution of state–civil society relations 139 Historical context 143 Civil society in the democratic era 147 The state, civil society and the consolidation of democracy 158 The challenge 164 6 South Africa and the world 167 Foreign policy and second-generation nationalism 170 South Africa’s foreign policy, 1994–2008 175 Continuities and discontinuities in foreign policy since 2008 190 The challenge 199 7 What is to be done? 201 Reform or transformation 203 Reconstructing political accountability to citizens 206 Reconciling constitutional rights 212 The necessity of leadership 222 8 Reinterpreting democratic and development experiences 225 Human agency and its structural conditioning 227 Socio-economic justice in transitional democracies 232 The battle of interpretation 235 A progressive nationalism? 244 Frequently used acronyms and abbreviations 247 Endnotes 249 References 265 Index 291 ...