Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa: Potentials and Challenges
Omano Edigheji, editor | | ISBN: 978-0-7969-2333-2 $45.00 |
| ISBN: 978-0-7969-2653-1 $45.00 |
| 2011/336 pages Distributed for HSRC Press |
DESCRIPTION
In this seminal collection, an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars draw on relevant conceptual models and compare experiences from other countries to show how South Africa could most successfully build a democratic developmental state. Macro- and microeconomic questions, as well as the institutional, governance, and social challenges facing South Africa are analyzed, as are the country's distinct advantages such as its existing constitutional democracy, its cashflow from mineral resources, and the commitment of its political leadership.
The contributors eloquently make the case that for South Africa to become a developmental state that is both democratic and socially inclusive, economic and social policy have to be intertwined, development and democratic agendas have to be mutually reinforcing, and a competent bureaucracy needs to be built to enhance state capacity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Omano Edigheji is the cofounder of the Centre for Africa's Social Progress and the research director of the policy and capacity enhancement program at the Human Science Research Council.
CONTENTS
- Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa: Potentials and Challenges—Omano Edigheji.
- CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES.
- Constructing the 21st Century Developmental State: Potentialities and Pitfalls—Peter B. Evans.
- From Maladjusted States to Democratic Developmental States in Africa—Thandika Mkandawire.
- How to do a Developmental State: Political, Organizational and Human Resource Requirements for the Developmental State—Ha-Joon Chang.
- Limits of the Authoritarian Developmental State of South Korea—Eun Mee Kim.
- Foiling the Resource Curse: Wealth, Equality, Oil and the Norwegian State—Jonathon W Moses.
- POLICYMAKING AND ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
- The Effect of a Mainstream Approach to Economic and Corporate Governance on Development in South Africa—Seeraj Mohamed.
- Can South Africa be a Developmental State?—Ben Fine.
- Consolidation First: Institutional Reform Priorities in the Creation of a Developmental State in South Africa—Anthony Butler.
- SOUTH AFRICA'S MACROECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY LANDSCAPES.
- Towards an Appropriate Macroeconomic Policy for a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa—Kenneth Creamer.
- Competition Policy, Competitive Rivalry and a Developmental State in South Africa—Simon Roberts.
- SOCIAL POLICY AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL UNDERPINNINGS IN SOUTH AFRICA: WHAT HOPE FOR A DEVELOPMENTAL STATE?
- The South African Post-Apartheid Bureaucracy: Inner workings, Contradictory Rationales and the Developmental State—Karl von Holdt.
- Intermediate Skills Development in South Africa: Understanding the Context, Responding to the Challenge—Salim Akoojee.
- AGRARIAN REFORM.
- The Agrarian Question and the Developmental State in Southern Africa—Sam Moyo.
