After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa? - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0813928273 ISBN 13: 9780813928272

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model for others to follow. The new order has since survived several transitions of ANC leadership, and it averted a potentially destabilizing constitutional crisis in 2008. Yet enormous challenges remain. Poverty and inequality are among the highest in the world. Staggering unemployment has fueled xenophobia, resulting in deadly aggression directed at refugees and migrant workers from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Violent crime rates, particularly murder and rape, remain grotesquely high. The HIV/AIDS pandemic was shockingly mishandled at the highest levels of government, and infection rates continue to be overwhelming. Despite the country’s uplifting success of hosting Africa’s first World Cup in 2010, inefficiency and corruption remain rife, infrastructure and basic services are often semifunctional, and political opposition and a free media are under pressure.

In this volume, major scholars chronicle South Africa’s achievements and challenges since the transition. The contributions, all previously unpublished, represent the state of the art in the study of South African politics, economics, law, and social policy.

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L'autore:

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. His most recent book is The Real World of Democratic Theory. Kahreen Tebeau has taught at Portland State University and Willamette University and is a Policy Analyst for the State of Oregon.

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• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0813928273
• ISBN 13: 9780813928272
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 376
• Redattore: Shapiro Ian, Tebeau Kahreen