Making Institutions Work in South Africa
  • 2021/240 pages
  • Distributed for Best Red, an imprint of HSRC Press,
    in the US and its possessions, Canada, and Asia with the exception of China

Making Institutions Work in South Africa

Daniel Plaatjies, editor
Paperback: $32.00
ISBN: 978-1-928246-36-7
Making Institutions Work in South Africa places the structures and processes of institutionalization at the center of debates about democracy, state, and society in South Africa.

As they explore the factors that facilitate, and those that impede, strong, well-functioning institutions, the contributors share three core assumptions: institutions are the pillars of a constitutional democracy; they evolve through the actions of people (agency); and they form structures of dynamic, shared social patterns of behavior through the implementation of the rule of law.
The late Daniel Plaatjies was chair of South Africa's Financial and Fiscal Commission. He previously served as head of the Graduate School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand.