Susan Booysen

Precarious Power (eBook, ePUB)

Compliance and discontent under Ramaphosa's ANC

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An incisive analysis of South Africa's ANC power-as party, as government, as state

South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) is in decline, its hegemony has been weakened, its legitimacy diluted. President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment suspended the ANC's electoral decline, it also heightened internal tensions between those who would deepen its acquired status as corrupt and captured, and those who would remodel it as redeemable. These are the incontrovertible knowns of South African politics; what will evolve from this is less certain.

In Precarious Power, renowned political scientist Susan Booysen uses in-depth research and analysis to distill that which is bound to shape South Africa's political future, Booysen focuses on contradictory party politics and internal ANC dissent that is veiled for the sake of retaining an electoral following. Also exposed is the incongruous, populist policymaking, protest politics and the use of soft law to ensure it does not alienate angry citizens, fueling further discontent and protest. The ANC's power has become exceedingly precarious. Precarious Power is the name of the political game, for the foreseeable future.

The comprehensive analysis in Precarious Power will appeal not only to political scientists and postgraduate students, but to all who take a keen interest in current affairs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776146475
• Artikelnr.: 59945918

Autorenporträt

Susan Booysen is a political analyst and commentator. She is professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and visiting professor at the Wits School of Governance. She is author of The ANC and the Regeneration of Political Power (2011) and Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma (2015).